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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

Richard Phillips Feynman

  • 270 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 1999
  • 13 editions
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1 About this book

"Richard Feynman was one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century - from his work on the atomic bomb to his solution to the puzzle of the Challenger disaster. Feynman helped to shape the world as we know it. Nobel laureate, iconoclastic icon, caring family man, amateur artist, and professional musician (in a Rio de Janeiro samba band), Feynman was a man of many dimensions.".

"The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a treasury of the best of Feynman's short works - from interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles."

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

  • Science
  • Biography
  • Physics
  • Physics, popular works
  • Physics, philosophy
  • Science, popular works
  • Science, philosophy
  • Science and civilization

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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