Title: Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
Author: James Gleick
Published: 2011
Language: English
ISBN: 9780679408369
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Pages: 532
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Science, 20th century, General, United States, Physicists, Biography & Autobiography, Physics, Science & Technology, Biography, History
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Science, Nonfiction
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.
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