"Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character / (Record no. 5166)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780393019216 |
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| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | CUS |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 808.83 |
| Item number | FEY/S |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Feynman, Richard P. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Richard P. Feynman as told to Ralph Leighton ; edited by Edward Hutchings. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st pbk. ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | W.W. Norton, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1997, c1985. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 350 p. ; |
| Dimensions | 21 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Includes index. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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 -- <br/>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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Physicists |
| Geographic subdivision | United States |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Science |
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| Keyword | Physics -- Feynman, Richard P -- (Richard Phillips), 1918- |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Physiciens -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle -- Biographies. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Sciences -- Humour. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | GN Books |
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| Central Library, Sikkim University | Central Library, Sikkim University | General Book Section | 24/07/2016 | 808.83 FEY/S | P25969 | 10/02/2023 | 22/08/2019 | General Books |