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Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988.
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Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988.
Physicists -- United States -- Biography.
Science -- Humor.
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Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988.
Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988.
Physicists -- United States -- Biography.
Science -- Humor.
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"
Surely
you'
re
joking
,
Mr
.
Feynman
!" : adventures of a curious character / Richard P.
Feynman
as told to Ralph Leighton ; edited by Edward Hutchings.
by
Feynman
, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988.
W.W. Norton & Company, 1997, c1985.
Call #:
530.092 F435s
Subjects
Feynman
, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988.
Physicists -- United States -- Biography.
Science -- Humor.
ISBN:
9780393355628
9780393316049 (pbk.)
0393316041 (pbk.)
Alternate title:
Surely
you'
re
joking
,
Mr
.
Feynman
!
Surely
you are
joking
,
Mr
Feynman
!
Description:
397 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
First published in hardcover: 1985.
Includes index.
Contents:
From Far Rockaway to MIT. He fixes radios by thinking! ; String beans ; Who stole the door? ; Latin or Italian? ; Always trying to escape ; The Chief Research Chemist of the Metaplast Corporation -- The Princeton years. "
Surely
you'
re
joking
,
Mr
.
Feynman
!" ; Meeeeeeeeeee! ; A map of the cat? ; Monster minds ; Mixing paints ; A different box of tools ; Mindreaders ; The amateur scientist --
Feynman
, the bomb, and the military. Fizzled fuses ; Testing bloodhounds ; Los Alamos from below ; Safecracker meets safecracker ; Uncle Sam doesn't need you! -- From Cornell to Caltech, with a touch of Brazil. The dignified professor ; Any questions? ; I want my dollar! ; You just ask them? ; Lucky numbers ; O Americano, outra vez! ; Man of a thousand tongues ; Certainly,
Mr
. Big! ; An offer you must refuse -- The world of one physicist. Would you solve the Dirac equation? ; The 7 percent solution ; Thirteen times ; It sounds Greek to me! ; But is it art? ; Is electricity fire? ; Judging books by their covers ; Alfred Nobel's other mistake ; Bringing culture to the physicists ; Found out in Paris ; Altered states ; Cargo cult science.
Summary:
In this phenomenal bestseller, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P.
Feynman
recounts his adventures trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek, painting a naked female toreador, accompanying a ballet on his bongo drums--and much else of an eyebrow-raising and hilarious nature. Photos.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
Other authors:
Leighton, Ralph.
Hutchings, Edward.
Holds:
2
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