"Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman" adventures of a curious character
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 p...
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1985.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I. 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
- pt. II. The Princeton years. "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!"
- Meeeeeeeeeee!
- A map of the cat?
- Monster minds
- Mixing paints
- A different box of tools
- Mindreaders
- The amateur scientist
- pt. III. Feynman, the bomb, and the military. Fizzled fuses
- Testing bloodhounds
- Los Alamos from below
- Safecracker meets safecracker
- Uncle Sam doesn't need you!
- pt. IV. 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
- pt. V. 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.
