Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
To his colleagues, Richard Feynman was not so much a genius as he was a full-blown magician: someone who "does things that nobody else could do and that seem completely unexpected." The path he cleared for twentieth-century physics led from the making of the atomic bomb to a Nobel Prize-winning theory of quantum electrodynamics to his devastating exposé of the Challenger space shuttle disaster. At the same time, the ebullient Feynman established a reputation as an eccentric showman, a master safe cracker and bongo player, and a wizard of seduction. James Gleick unravels the dense skein of Feynman's thought as well as the paradoxes of his character in a biography of outstanding lucidity and compassion.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- National Geographic Books
- Year
- 1993
- ISBN-13
- 9780679747048
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Richard Feynman's lifeQuantum physicsAtomic bomb development
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and TechnologyShortlisted(1993)
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography or AutobiographyShortlistedMajor(1993)
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1992)
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