"Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character

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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

Vintage, 1992

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Originally published: W.W. Norton, 1985

Includes index

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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life was a series of combustible combinations made possible by his unique mixture of high intelligence, unquenchable curiosity and eternal scepticism. Over a period of years, Feynman's conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton were first taped and then set down as they appear here, little changed from their spoken form, giving a wise, funny, passionate and totally honest self-portrait of one of the greatest men of our age.

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