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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman"

Richard Phillips Feynman, Ralph Leighton

  • 352 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 1985
  • 45 editions
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1 About this book

The biography of the physicist and Nobel prize winner Richard P. Feynman - a collection of short stories, chapters told to and written down by Ralph Leighton. Feynman tells of his childhood and youth and goes into his adult life, both personally and professionally.

Good for readers who want: a true life story, humor, and science.

  • Anecdotes, facetiae
  • Biography
  • Humor
  • Science
  • Physicists, biography
  • Anecdotes
  • Art
  • Music

2 About Richard Phillips Feynman

1918–1988

Richard Phillips Feynman (; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics (QED), with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles".

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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