"Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character /
Feynman, Richard P.
"Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character / Richard P. Feynman as told to Ralph Leighton ; edited by Edward Hutchings. - 1st pbk. ed. - New York : W.W. Norton, 1997, c1985. - 350 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes index.
pt. I. From Far Rockaway to MIT. He fixes radios by thinking! -- String beans -- Who stole the door? -- Latin or Italian? -- Always trying to escape -- The chief research chemist of the Metaplast Corporation -- pt. II. The Princeton years. "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" -- Meeeeeeeeeee! -- A map of the cat? -- Monster minds -- Mixing paints -- A different box of tools -- Mindreaders -- The amateur scientist -- pt. III. Feynman, the bomb, and the military. Fizzled fuses -- Testing bloodhounds -- Los Alamos from below -- Safecracker meets safecracker -- Uncle Sam doesn't need you! -- pt. IV. From Cornell to Caltech, with a touch of Brazil. The dignified professor -- Any questions? -- I want my dollar! -- You just ask them? -- Lucky numbers -- O Americano, outra vez! -- Man of a thousand tongues -- Certainly, Mr. Big! -- An offer you must refuse --
pt. V. The world of one physicist. Would you solve the Dirac equation? -- The 7 percent solution -- Thirteen times -- It sounds Greek to me! -- But is it art? -- Is electricity fire? -- Judging books by their covers -- Alfred Nobel's other mistake -- Bringing culture to the physicists -- Found out in Paris -- Altered states -- Cargo cult science.
9780393019216 9780393316049 0393316041 0393019217
Physicists--United States
Science
Physics -- Feynman, Richard P -- (Richard Phillips), 1918-
Physiciens -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle -- Biographies.
Sciences -- Humour.
808.83 / FEY/S
"Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character / Richard P. Feynman as told to Ralph Leighton ; edited by Edward Hutchings. - 1st pbk. ed. - New York : W.W. Norton, 1997, c1985. - 350 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes index.
pt. I. From Far Rockaway to MIT. He fixes radios by thinking! -- String beans -- Who stole the door? -- Latin or Italian? -- Always trying to escape -- The chief research chemist of the Metaplast Corporation -- pt. II. The Princeton years. "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" -- Meeeeeeeeeee! -- A map of the cat? -- Monster minds -- Mixing paints -- A different box of tools -- Mindreaders -- The amateur scientist -- pt. III. Feynman, the bomb, and the military. Fizzled fuses -- Testing bloodhounds -- Los Alamos from below -- Safecracker meets safecracker -- Uncle Sam doesn't need you! -- pt. IV. From Cornell to Caltech, with a touch of Brazil. The dignified professor -- Any questions? -- I want my dollar! -- You just ask them? -- Lucky numbers -- O Americano, outra vez! -- Man of a thousand tongues -- Certainly, Mr. Big! -- An offer you must refuse --
pt. V. The world of one physicist. Would you solve the Dirac equation? -- The 7 percent solution -- Thirteen times -- It sounds Greek to me! -- But is it art? -- Is electricity fire? -- Judging books by their covers -- Alfred Nobel's other mistake -- Bringing culture to the physicists -- Found out in Paris -- Altered states -- Cargo cult science.
9780393019216 9780393316049 0393316041 0393019217
Physicists--United States
Science
Physics -- Feynman, Richard P -- (Richard Phillips), 1918-
Physiciens -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle -- Biographies.
Sciences -- Humour.
808.83 / FEY/S