Bibliograph

"Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!", adventures of a curious character, Richard P. Feynman as told to Ralph Leighton ; edited by Edward Hutchings

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Label

"Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!", adventures of a curious character, Richard P. Feynman as told to Ralph Leighton ; edited by Edward Hutchings

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

"Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!"

Oclc number

18681881

Responsibility statement

Richard P. Feynman as told to Ralph Leighton ; edited by Edward Hutchings

Sub title

adventures of a curious character

Table Of Contents

From Far Rockaway to MIT: He fixes radios by thinking! -- String beans -- Who stole the door? -- Latin or Italian? -- Always trying to escape -- Chief research chemist of the metaplast corporation -- Princeton years: "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" -- Meeeeeeeeeee! -- Map of the cat? -- Monster minds -- Mixing paints -- Different box of tools -- Mindreaders -- 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: 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! -- Offer you must refuse -- World of one physicist: Would you solve the Dirac equation? -- 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 -- Index

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