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 Surely You're Joking, Mr.Feynman! - Richard P. Feynman
 Surely You're Joking, Mr.Feynman! - Richard P. Feynman ... helium, was commissioned to paint a naked (female) toreador, explained physics to the likes of Einstein and Von Neumann, accompanied ballet on the bongo drums, and was judged mentally deficient by a US Army psychiatrist. Over a period of years, Feynman's conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton were first taped and then set down as they appear in this book, little changed from their spoken form, to give a self-portrait of a remarkable man.Newest Review: ... is. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Book - overview ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As mentioned earlier, the book is arranged vaguely ... more ... in chronological order. But it is not a straight re-telling of his life and accomplishments. It does not analyse his motivation for entering physics, except so far as Feynman himself reckons.
It is split into five parts, for five (sort of) 'stages' in his life, entitled (respectively) "From Far Rockaway to MIT," "The Princeton Years," "Feynman, the Bomb, and the Military," "From Cornell to Caltech, with a Touch of Brazil," and "The World of One Physicist." Each p...more |
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Surely You're Joking, Mr.Feynman! - Richard P. Feynman: A Curious Character Indeed (2118 words)
by mattygroves10 - written on 20/10/05 (Very useful, 171 readings)
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Have you ever heard of Richard Feynman? Perhaps you know he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. Perhaps you know that he, as a young physicist, helped develop the atomic bomb at Los Alamos during the war. More likely, you are aware that he sat on the commission that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (but that's another book, and another op). Perhaps you know none of these things. Reading "Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!" - Adventures of a Curious Character will also tell you that he (amongst other things) dabbled in biology, was a painter (and even sold his drawings and paintings), cracked safes, was multilingual, and ...
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