New York Times Bestseller: This life story of the quirky physicist is “a thorough and masterful portrait of one of the great minds of the century” (The New York Review of Books). Raised in Depression-era Rockaway Beach, physicist Richard Feynman was irreverent, eccentric, and childishly enthusiastic–a new kind of scientist in a field that was in its infancy. His quick mastery of quantum mechanics earned him a place at Los Alamos working on the Manhattan Project under J. Robert Oppenheimer, where the giddy young man held his own among the nation’s greatest minds. There, Feynman turned theory into practice, culminating in the Trinity test, on July 16, 1945, when the Atomic Age was born. He was only twenty-seven. And he was just getting started. In this sweeping biography, James Gleick captures the forceful personality of a great man, integrating Feynman’s work and life in a way that is accessible to laymen and fascinating for the scientists who follow in his footsteps.
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
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This biography of physicist Richard Feynman provides educational insights into the history of science, physics, and the life of a Nobel laureate.
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Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
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This biography of scientist Richard Feynman provides educational context for the history of science and the life of a key scientific figure.
From the author of the national bestseller Chaos comes an outstanding biography of one of the most dazzling and flamboyant scientists of the 20th century that “not only paints a highly attractive portrait of Feynman but also . . . makes for a stimulating adventure in the annals of science” (The New York Times). 16 pages of photos.
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Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
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This biography details the life and scientific contributions of a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, inspiring interest in science and history.
To his colleagues, Richard Feynman was not so much a genius as he was a full-blown magician: someone who “does things that nobody else could do and that seem completely unexpected.” The path he cleared for twentieth-century physics led from the making of the atomic bomb to a Nobel Prize-winning theory of quantam electrodynamics to his devastating expose of the Challenger space shuttle disaster. At the same time, the ebullient Feynman established a reputation as an eccentric showman, a master safe cracker and bongo player, and a wizard of seduction. Now James Gleick, author of the bestselling Chaos, unravels teh dense skein of Feynman’s thought as well as the paradoxes of his character in a biography–which was nominated for a National Book Award–of outstanding lucidity and compassion.
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