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"Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character

Author: Richard Phillips Feynman; Ralph Leighton; Edward Hutchings
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, 1997.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : English : 1st Norton pbk. edView all editions and formats
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In this phenomenal bestseller, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman recounts his adventures trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek, painting a naked female toreador, accompanying a ballet on his bongo drums--and much else of an eyebrow-raising and hilarious nature. Photos.
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Named Person: Richard Phillips Feynman
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Phillips Feynman; Ralph Leighton; Edward Hutchings
ISBN: 0393316041 9780393316049
OCLC Number: 37123233
Notes: Includes index.
Description: 350 p. ; 21 cm.
Responsibility: Richard P. Feynman as told to Ralph Leighton ; edited by Edward Hutchings.

Abstract:

In this phenomenal bestseller, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman recounts his adventures trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek, painting a naked female toreador, accompanying a ballet on his bongo drums--and much else of an eyebrow-raising and hilarious nature. Photos.

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