Genius : the life and science of Richard Feynman
Gleick, James
Genius : the life and science of Richard Feynman - New York : Pantheon Books , c1992. - 531 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
To his colleagues, Richard Feynman was not so much a genius as he was a full-blown magician: someone who "does things that nobody else could do and that seem completely unexpected." The path he cleared for twentieth-century physics led from the making of the atomic bomb to a Nobel Prize-winning theory of quantam electrodynamics to his devastating exposé of the Challenger space shuttle disaster. At the same time, the ebullient Feynman established a reputation as an eccentric showman, a master safe cracker and bongo player, and a wizard of seduction. Now James Gleick, author of the bestselling Chaos, unravels the dense skein of Feynman's thought as well as the paradoxes of his character in a biography - which was nominated for a National Book Award - of outstanding lucidity and compassion.
English.
0-679-40836-3
Feynman, Richard Phillips
Physics--- History - 20th century
92 FEY
Genius : the life and science of Richard Feynman - New York : Pantheon Books , c1992. - 531 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
To his colleagues, Richard Feynman was not so much a genius as he was a full-blown magician: someone who "does things that nobody else could do and that seem completely unexpected." The path he cleared for twentieth-century physics led from the making of the atomic bomb to a Nobel Prize-winning theory of quantam electrodynamics to his devastating exposé of the Challenger space shuttle disaster. At the same time, the ebullient Feynman established a reputation as an eccentric showman, a master safe cracker and bongo player, and a wizard of seduction. Now James Gleick, author of the bestselling Chaos, unravels the dense skein of Feynman's thought as well as the paradoxes of his character in a biography - which was nominated for a National Book Award - of outstanding lucidity and compassion.
English.
0-679-40836-3
Feynman, Richard Phillips
Physics--- History - 20th century
92 FEY
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