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050 10 $aQC16.F49$bA37 1989
082 00 $a530/.092/4$aB$219
100 1 $aFeynman, Richard Phillips.
245 10 $a"Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" :$badventures of a curious character /$cRichard P. Feynman ; as told to Ralph Leighton ; edited by Edward Hutchings.
250 $aBantam trade ed.
260 $aNew York :$bBantam Books,$c1989, c1985.
300 $a322 p. ;$c21 cm.
500 $a"A Bantam trade paperback."
500 $a"Bantam new age books"--P. preceding t.p.
500 $aReprint. Originally published: New York : W.W. Norton, c1985.
500 $a"The New York Times bestseller"--Cover.
500 $a"The outrageous exploits of the world's most outspoken Nobel Prize-winning scientist"--Cover.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aIntroduction / Albert R. Hibbs -- Vitals -- Part 1 : 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 -- Part 2 : the Princeton years. "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" -- Meeeeeeeee! -- A map of the cat? -- Monster minds -- Mixing paints -- A different box of tools -- Mindreaders -- The amateur scientist.
505 0 $aPart 3 : Feynman, the bomb, and the military. Fizzled fuses -- Testing bloodhounds -- Los Alamos from below -- Safecracker meets safecracker -- Uncle Sam doesn't need you! -- Part 4 : 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.
505 0 $aPart 5 : 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.
600 10 $aFeynman, Richard Phillips.
650 0 $aPhysicists$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aScience$xHumor.
700 1 $aLeighton, Ralph.
700 1 $aHutchings, Edward.
994 $aZ0$bPMR
948 $hNO HOLDINGS IN PMR - 1 OTHER HOLDINGS