"Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character Richard P. Feynman as told to Ralph Leighton ; edited by Edward Hutchings.

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Richard P Feynman

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9780099173311

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530.092

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pt. I. From Far Rockaway to MIT. He fixes radios by thinking! -- pt. II. The Princeton years. "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" pt. III. Feynman, the bomb, and the military. Fizzled fuses -- pt. IV. From Cornell to Caltech, with a touch of Brazil. The dignified professor pt. V. The world of one physicist. Would you solve the Dirac equation?

Summary: Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life was a series of combustible combinations made possible by his unique mixture of high intelligence, unquenchable curiosity and eternal skepticism. Over a period of years, Feynman's conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton were first taped and then set down as they appear here, little changed from their spoken form, giving a wise, funny, passionate and totally honest self-portrait of one of the greatest men of our age

List(s) this item appears in: New Arrivals Oct-Nov 2021 - Central Library IIITDMK

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	IIITDM Kurnool General Stacks	Non-fiction	530.092FEY (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	0003778
Books	IIITDM Kurnool General Stacks	Non-fiction	530.092FEN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	0003777
Books	IIITDM Kurnool General Stacks		92:53 FEY (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	0002131

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life was a series of combustible combinations made possible by his unique mixture of high intelligence, unquenchable curiosity and eternal skepticism. Over a period of years, Feynman's conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton were first taped and then set down as they appear here, little changed from their spoken form, giving a wise, funny, passionate and totally honest self-portrait of one of the greatest men of our age

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