"Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character
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
Autobiography
350 pages ; 22 cm
9780393019216, 9780393316049, 0393019217, 0393316041
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pt. I. From Far Rockaway to MIT. He fixes radios by thinking!
String beans
Who stole the door?
Latin or Italian?
Always trying to escape
The chief research chemist of the Metaplast Corporation
pt. II. The Princeton years. "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!"
Meeeeeeeeeee!
A map of the cat?
Monster minds
Mixing paints
A different box of tools
Mindreaders
The amateur scientist
pt. III. Feynman, the bomb, and the military. Fizzled fuses
Testing bloodhounds
Los Alamos from below
Safecracker meets safecracker
Uncle Sam doesn't need you!
pt. IV. From Cornell to Caltech, with a touch of Brazil. The dignified professor
Any questions?
I want my dollar!
You just ask them?
Lucky numbers
O Americano, outra vez!
Man of a thousand tongues
Certainly, Mr. Big!
An offer you must refuse
pt. V. The world of one physicist. Would you solve the Dirac equation?
The 7 percent solution
Thirteen times
It sounds Greek to me!
But is it art?
Is electricity fire?
Judging books by their covers
Alfred Nobel's other mistake
Bringing culture to the physicists
Found out in Paris
Altered states
Cargo cult science
Includes index
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