Richard Field obtained his undergraduate education in physics at the University of California, Berkeley on a gymnastics scholarship,[2] and continued with his PhD in 1971 under the supervision of John David Jackson.
In 1973 he moved to California Institute of Technology to work with Nobel laureate Richard Feynman.
It was there that he did his most-cited work, producing the "Field-Feynman" Monte Carlo used to compare the production of observable particles arising from the fragmentation of quarks and gluons in different particle accelerator environments.
[5] During this time he served as the PhD thesis advisor to computer-scientist/physicist Stephen Wolfram, who is CEO of Wolfram Research and was considered a physics prodigy in his student years.
[citation needed] He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1987, "For contributions to the application of the Quantum Chromodynamic theory of quarks and gluons to hadron hadron collisions and the concept of parton fragmentation"[6] This article about an American physicist is a stub.