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Genius|Gleick, James

Genius : The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

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Overview

To his colleagues, Richard Feynman was not so much a genius as he was a full-blown magician: someone who "does things that nobody else could do and that seem completely unexpected." The path he cleared for twentieth-century physics led from the making of the atomic bomb to a Nobel Prize-winning theory of quantam electrodynamics to his devastating exposé of the Challenger space shuttle disaster. At the same time, the ebullient Feynman established a reputation as an eccentric showman, a master safe cracker and bongo player, and a wizard of seduction.

Now James Gleick, author of the bestselling Chaos, unravels teh dense skein of Feynman's thought as well as the paradoxes of his character in a biography—which was nominated for a National Book Award—of outstanding lucidity and compassion.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780307915108
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House
  • Publish Date: Feb 2011
  • Author: James Gleick
  • Narrator: Dick Estell
  • Duration: 20:08:47

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