Surely you're joking, Mr Feynman!

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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Subject(s)Science, Physics
Author(s)Richard P Feynman, Ralph Leighton
Age14-16
Published1989
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Shelf referenceA 509.22 FEY
ISN/ISBN9780045300235 0045300232
Direct URLhttps://www.stem.org.uk/x8q5a

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