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Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman

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Informationen zum Autor Richard Feynman was, until his death in 1988, the most famous physicist in the world. Only an infinitesimal part of the general population could understand his mathematical physics, but his outgoing and sunny personality, his gift for exposition, his habit of playing the bongo drums, and his testimony to the Presidential Commission on the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster turned him into a celebrity. Richard Feynman died in 1988 after a long illness. Freeman Dyson, of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, called him 'the most original mind of his generation', while in its obituary The New York Times described him as 'arguably the most brilliant, iconoclastic and influential of the postwar generation of theoretical physicists'. Klappentext Subtitled, "Adventures Of A Curious Character As Told To Ralph Leighton". Over a period of years, Feynman's conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton were first taped and then set down as they appear here, little changed from their spoken form, giving a wise, funny, passionate and totally honest self-portrait of one of the greatest men of our age. Zusammenfassung Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure.

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Authors Richard Feynman, Richard P Feynman, Richard P. Feynman
Assisted by Edwar Hutchings (Editor), Edward Hutchings (Editor)
Publisher Vintage UK
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 19.11.1992
 
EAN 9780099173311
ISBN 978-0-09-917331-1
No. of pages 368
Dimensions 129 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
Series Arrow Books
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > General, dictionaries

popular science, SCIENCE / General, SCIENCE / Physics / General, Memoirs, Physics, Autobiography: science, technology & medicine, Biography: science, technology and medicine, Autobiography: science, technology and medicine

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    Written on 31. December 2020 by Michael.

    Ich hatte selten solchen Spass, ein Buch zu lesen. Skurile Geschichten aus dem echten Leben eines der grössten Köpfe unserer Zeit - man hat Teil und wächst selbst daran. Die Wissenschaft spielt eher im Subtext eine Rolle (Dürfte auch für Leser ohne wissenschaftlichen Hintergrund lesenswert sein).

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