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An edition of "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman": Adventures of a Curious Character (1984)

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"

Adventures of a Curious Character

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The biography of the physicist and Nobel prize winner Richard P. Feynman - a collection of short stories, chapters told to and written down by Ralph Leighton.
Feynman tells of his childhood and youth and goes into his adult life, both personally and professionally.

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Anecdotes, Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, Art, Biography, Humor, Music, Physicists, Professors, Richard Phillips Feynman, Samba, Science, University, Feynman, richard p. (richard phillips), 1918-1988, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Open Library Staff Picks, Physicists, biography, Wu li xue jia, Sheng ping shi ji, Autobiografie, Feynman, Richard P., Erlebnisbericht, Physiker, Autobiographie, Naturwissenschaft, Physiciens, Biographies

People

Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Phillips Feynman (1918-1988)

Places

Brazil, Far Rockaway, Los Alamos, MIT, Princeton, United States, mei guo

Times

1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, xian dai

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Table of Contents

Introduction by Albert R. Hibbs
Page ix
Vitals
Page xi
Part I. From Far Rockaway to MIT
Page 1
He Fixes Radios by Thinking!
Page 3
String Beans
Page 12
Who Stole the Door?
Page 17
Latin or Italian?
Page 28
Always Trying to Escape
Page 30
The Chief Research Chemist of the Metaplast Corporation
Page 37
Part II. The Princeton Years
Page 45
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
Page 47
Meeeeeeeeeee!
Page 53
A Map of the Cat?
Page 56
Monster Minds
Page 63
Mixing Paints
Page 67
A Different Box of Tools
Page 69
Mindreaders
Page 72
The Amateur Scientist
Page 74
Part 3. Feynman, the Bomb, and the Military
Page 81
Fizzled Fuses
Page 83
Testing Bloodhounds
Page 87
Los Alamos from Below
Page 90
Safecracker Meets Safecracker
Page 119
Uncle Sam Doesn't Need You!
Page 137
Part 4. From Cornell to Caltech, With a Touch of Brazil
Page 147
The Dignified Professor
Page 149
Any Questions?
Page 158
I Want My Dollar!
Page 162
You Just Ask Them?
Page 165
Lucky Numbers
Page 173
O Americano, Outra Vez!
Page 179
Man of a Thousand Tongues
Page 198
Certainly, Mr. Big!
Page 199
An Offer You Must Refuse
Page 209
Part 5. The World of One Physicist
Page 215
Would You Solve the Dirac Equation?
Page 217
The 7 Percent Solution
Page 226
Thirteen Times
Page 234
It Sounds Greek to Me!
Page 235
But Is It Art?
Page 236
Is Electricity Fire?
Page 253
Judging Books by Their Covers
Page 262
Alfred Nobel's Other Mistake
Page 276
Bringing Culture to the Physicists
Page 285
Found Out in Paris
Page 290
Altered States
Page 301
Cargo Cult Science
Page 308
Index.
Page 319

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Has an index

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Toronto, New York
Other Titles
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman
Copyright Date
1985

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
530/.092/4, B
Library of Congress
QC16.F49 A37 1989

Contributors

As told to
Ralph Leighton
Editor
Edward Hutchings
Introduction
Albert R. Hibbs

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
322p.
Number of pages
322

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OL2062828M
ISBN 10
0553346687
LCCN
88047879
Library Thing
5655
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927748

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