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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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  • ★★★★ 4.2 (98 ratings) ·
  • 277 Want to read
  • 15 Currently reading
  • 112 Have read

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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W. W. Norton & Company
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English
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350

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Subjects

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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2008, Izd-vo "KoLibri"
in Russian
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Bie dou le, Feiman xian sheng: guai cai li xian ji
2005, Hunan ke xue ji shu chu ban she
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
2000, 사이언스북스
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
April 1997, W. W. Norton & Company
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
April 1997, W. W. Norton & Company
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
1992, Vintage Books
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April 1989, Bantam Books
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"Sie belieben wohl zu scherzen, Mr. Feynman!": Abenteuer e. neugierigen Physikers
1987, Piper
in German
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
January 1, 1986, Bantam
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman": Adventures of a Curious Character
1985, W.W. Norton
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"WHEN I WAS about eleven or twelve I set up a lab in my house."

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OL7456916M
ISBN 10
0393316041
ISBN 13
9780393316049
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5655
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