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Krauss, Lawrence Maxwell.
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Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988.
Physicists -- United States -- Biography.
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Krauss, Lawrence Maxwell.
Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988.
Physicists -- United States -- Biography.
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Quantum
man
:
Richard
Feynman
's
life
in
science
/ Lawrence M. Krauss.
by
Krauss, Lawrence Maxwell.
Atlas & Co. : W.W. Norton, c2011.
Call #:
530.092 F435q
Subjects
Feynman
,
Richard
P. (
Richard
Phillips), 1918-1988.
Physicists -- United States -- Biography.
Series
Great discoveries
ISBN:
9780393064711 (hbk.)
0393064719 (hbk.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xvii, 350 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
"Atlas Books."
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The paths to greatness. Lights, camera, action ; The
quantum
universe ; A new way of thinking ; Alice in Quantumland ; Endings and beginnings ; Loss of innocence ; Paths to greatness ; From here to infinity ; Splitting an atom ; Through a glass darkly -- The rest of the universe. Matter of the heart and the heart of matter ; Rearranging the universe ; Hiding in the mirror ; Distractions and delights ; Twisting the tail of the cosmos ; From top to bottom ; Truth, beauty, and freedom -- Character is destiny.
Summary:
Traces the colorful, turbulent
life
of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, from the death of his childhood sweetheart during the Manhattan Project to his rise as an icon in the scientific community.
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