Gleick, James <br/><br/>
Genius  : the life and science of Richard Feynman 

 - New York  : Pantheon Books  , c1992. 
 - 531 p.  ; 25 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0-679-40836-3 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Feynman, Richard Phillips<br/>Physics--- History - 20th century
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>92 FEY