"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman"
Adventures of a Curious Character
by Richard Phillips Feynman and Ralph Leighton
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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 possible by his unique mixture of high intelligence, unquenchable curiosity and eternal skepticism. Over a period of years, Feynman's conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton were first taped and then set down as they appear here, little changed from their spoken form, giving a wise, funny, passionate and totally honest self-portrait of one of the greatest men of our age.
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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"
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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
1992, Vintage Books
Paperback
in English
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
April 1989, Bantam Books
Paperback
in English
- Bantam trade edition from Bantam New Age Books
0553346687 9780553346688
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"Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
June 1988, Bantam Books (Mm)
Paperback
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"Sie belieben wohl zu scherzen, Mr. Feynman!": Abenteuer e. neugierigen Physikers
1987, Piper
in German
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
January 1, 1986, Bantam
Mass Market Paperback
in English
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman": Adventures of a Curious Character
1985, W.W. Norton
in English
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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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