Quantum man : : Richard Feynman's Life in Science
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The paths to greatness. Lights, camera, action ; The quantum universe ; A new way of thinking ; Alice in Quantumland ; Endings and beginnings ; Loss of innocence ; Paths to greatness ; From here to infinity ; Splitting an atom ; Through a glass darkly -- The rest of the universe. Matter of the heart and the heart of matter ; Rearranging the universe ; Hiding in the mirror ; Distractions and delights ; Twisting the tail of the cosmos ; From top to bottom ; Truth, beauty, and freedom -- Character is destiny.
Traces the colorful, turbulent life of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, from the death of his childhood sweetheart during the Manhattan Project to his rise as an icon in the scientific community.
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Great discoveries.
PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton, c2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: xvii, 350 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
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9780393064711
0393064719
SUBJECTS
Feynman, Richard P. -- 1918-1988.
Physicists -- Biography.