Name: Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
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Author: Gleick, James
ISBN: 9780679747048

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Type

Physical Book

Author

James Gleick

Publisher

Vintage

Year

1993

Language

English

Pages

531

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.4 x 13.2 x 2.9 cm

Weight

0.56 kg.

ISBN

0679747044

ISBN13

9780679747048

Synopsis "Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman"

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 exposé 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.