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What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Richard Phillips Feynman, Ralph Leighton

  • 256 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1988
  • 19 editions
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1 About this book

"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character is an edited collection of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.

Released in 1988, the book covers several instances in Feynman's life and was prepared from recorded audio conversations that he had with Ralph Leighton, his close friend and drumming partner. It follows the same format established in Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, published in 1985.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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

  • Science
  • Biography
  • Physics
  • Science, miscellanea
  • Physicists, biography
  • Anecdotes
  • Physicists
  • United States

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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