Richard P Feynman

"Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character Richard P. Feynman as told to Ralph Leighton ; edited by Edward Hutchings. - New York : W.W. Norton, ©1985. - 350 pages ; 22 cm

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?


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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