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| Genre/Form: | Compact discs Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Richard Phillips Feynman; Richard Phillips Feynman |
| Material Type: | Biography, Audio book, etc., Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Sound Recording, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard P Feynman; Ralph Leighton |
| ISBN: | 0393061329 9780393061321 |
| OCLC Number: | 60798482 |
| Notes: | "With a commemorative CD." |
| Description: | x, 511 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) |
| Contents: | Prologue. To the reader / by Ralph Leighton ; Foreword / by Freeman Dyson. -- From far Rockaway to MIT. The making of a scientist ; He fixes radios by thinking! ; String beans ; Who stole the door? ; Always trying to escape ; The chief research chemist of the Metaplast Corporation. -- The Princeton years. "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" ; Monster minds ; A different box of tools ; It's a simple as one, two, three ..." ; Meeeeeeeee! ; Mind readers ; Mixing paints ; Latin or Italian! -- Arlene. "What do y̲o̲u̲ care what other people think?" -- Feynman, the military, and the bomb. Fizzled fuses ; Los Alamos from below (spoken version on commemorative CD inside back cover) ; Safecracker meets safecracker ; Uncle Sam doesn't need you! -- From Cornell to Caltech with a touch of Brazil. The dignified professor ; Any questions? ; I want my dollar! ; You just ask them? ; O Americano, outra vez! ; Getting ahead ; Lucky numbers ; Certainly, Mr. Big! ; An offer you must refuse ; Man of a thousand tongues. |
| Responsibility: | Richard P. Feynman ; edited by Ralph Leighton. |
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Abstract:
Presents a collection of stories and lectures by world-renowned physicist Richard Feyman, the 1965 Nobel Prize winner in physics who helped to develop the atomic bomb. Includes audio CD.
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