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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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Vy, konechno, shutite, mister Fei nman!: pokhozhdenii Ła udivitel £nogo cheloveka, povedannye im Ral £fu Lei tonu
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! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
April 1997, W. W. Norton & Company
in English
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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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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
April 1989, Bantam Books
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"Sie belieben wohl zu scherzen, Mr. Feynman!": Abenteuer e. neugierigen Physikers
1987, Piper
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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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Table of Contents
Introduction by Albert R. Hibbs
Page ix
Vitals
Page xi
Part I.
From Far Rockaway to MIT
Page 1
He Fixes Radios by Thinking!
Page 3
String Beans
Page 12
Who Stole the Door?
Page 17
Latin or Italian?
Page 28
Always Trying to Escape
Page 30
The Chief Research Chemist of the Metaplast Corporation
Page 37
Part II.
The Princeton Years
Page 45
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
Page 47
Meeeeeeeeeee!
Page 53
A Map of the Cat?
Page 56
Monster Minds
Page 63
Mixing Paints
Page 67
A Different Box of Tools
Page 69
Mindreaders
Page 72
The Amateur Scientist
Page 74
Part 3.
Feynman, the Bomb, and the Military
Page 81
Fizzled Fuses
Page 83
Testing Bloodhounds
Page 87
Los Alamos from Below
Page 90
Safecracker Meets Safecracker
Page 119
Uncle Sam Doesn't Need You!
Page 137
Part 4.
From Cornell to Caltech, With a Touch of Brazil
Page 147
The Dignified Professor
Page 149
Any Questions?
Page 158
I Want My Dollar!
Page 162
You Just Ask Them?
Page 165
Lucky Numbers
Page 173
O Americano, Outra Vez!
Page 179
Man of a Thousand Tongues
Page 198
Certainly, Mr. Big!
Page 199
An Offer You Must Refuse
Page 209
Part 5.
The World of One Physicist
Page 215
Would You Solve the Dirac Equation?
Page 217
The 7 Percent Solution
Page 226
Thirteen Times
Page 234
It Sounds Greek to Me!
Page 235
But Is It Art?
Page 236
Is Electricity Fire?
Page 253
Judging Books by Their Covers
Page 262
Alfred Nobel's Other Mistake
Page 276
Bringing Culture to the Physicists
Page 285
Found Out in Paris
Page 290
Altered States
Page 301
Cargo Cult Science
Page 308
Index.
Page 319
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