Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)

Ralph Leighton, Richard P. Feynman

ISBN 10: 0393316041 / ISBN 13: 9780393316049

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1997

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Synopsis:

The outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific minds and a legendary American original. In this phenomenal national bestseller, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman recounts in his inimitable voice 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. A New York Times bestseller; more than 500,000 copies sold.

About the Author: Richard P. Feynman was born in 1918 and grew up in Far Rockaway, New York. At the age of seventeen he entered MIT and in 1939 went to Princeton, then to Los Alamos, where he joined in the effort to build the atomic bomb. Following World War II he joined the physics faculty at Cornell, then went on to Caltech in 1951, where he taught until his death in 1988. He shared the Nobel Prize for physics in 1965, and served with distinction on the Shuttle Commission in 1986. A commemorative stamp in his name was issued by the U.S. Postal Service in 2005.^Ralph Leighton, Richard Feynman's great friend and collaborator, now lives in northern California.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (...
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good