"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
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A New York Times bestseller—the outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific minds and a legendary American original.
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" by Richard P Feynman
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. In these two perennially popular, bestselling memoir collections, Feynman weaves his views on modern science together with his outrageous life experiences--a combustible mixture of intelligence, curiosity, skepticism, and chutzpah. In Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman , Feynman recounts his adventures trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr, gambling with Nick the Greek, painting a naked female toreador, and much else of an eyebrow-raising and hilarious nature. In What Do You Care What Other People Think?, Feynman introduces us to his first love, who lay dying in a nearby hospital while he worked on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, and shares his brilliant experiment which revealed the cause of the space shuttle Challenger's explosion.
"A storyteller in the tradition of Mark TwainHe proves once again that it is possible to laugh out loud and scratch your head at the same time." -- New York Times Book Review
"Quintessential Feynman—funny, brilliant, bawdy . . . enormously entertaining." -- The New Yorker
"Buzzes with energy, anecdote and life. It almost makes you want to become a physicist." -- Science Digest
"Quintessential Feynman—funny, brilliant, bawdy . . . enormously entertaining." -- The New Yorker
"Buzzes with energy, anecdote and life. It almost makes you want to become a physicist." -- Science Digest
Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988) was a professor at Cornell University and CalTech and received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1965. In 1986 he served with distinction on the Rogers Commission investigating the space shuttle Challenger disaster. Ralph Leighton lives in northern California.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393316049 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393316041 |
| Title | "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" |
| Author | Richard P Feynman |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 1997-05-12 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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