Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics

Gleick, James

ISBN 10: 0316903167 / ISBN 13: 9780316903165

Published by Little, Brown, 1992

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Foxing to inside D/J. Slight fading to D/J spine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics
• Publisher: Little, Brown
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316903167
• ISBN 13: 9780316903165
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 36 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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Synopsis

For nearly 50 years, until his death in 1988, aged 70, Richard Feynman's discoveries lay at the heart of the development of modern physics. Always controversial, Feynman (whom a colleague described as being like a combination of Groucho Marx and Alfred Einstein) was a key physicist from his days as part of the atom-bomb-making team at Los Alamos in the early 1940s, until his discovery of the reason for the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster 40 years later. This book combines Feynman's life-story with an account of his thought and its context.

Review

If you've read any of Richard Feynman's wonderful autobiographies you may think that a biography of Feynman would be a waste of your time. Wrong! Gleick's Genius is a masterpiece of scientific biography--and an inspiration to anyone in pursuit of their own fulfillment as a person of genius. Deservedly nominated for a National Book Award, underservedly passed over by the committee in the face of tough competition, and very deservedly a book that you must read.