TY  - BOOK
AU  - Feynman,Richard P.
TI  - "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character
SN  - 9780393019216 
U1  - 808.83 
PY  - 1997///, c1985
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton
KW  - Physicists
KW  - United States
KW  - Science
KW  - Physics -- Feynman, Richard P -- (Richard Phillips), 1918-
KW  - Physiciens -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle -- Biographies
KW  - Sciences -- Humour
N1  - 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
ER  -