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Description edit
From the author of the national bestseller Chaos comes an outstanding biography of one of the most dazzling and flamboyant scientists of the 20th century that "not only paints a highly attractive portrait of Feynman but also . . . makes for a stimulating adventure in the annals of science"... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Richard Feynman: Add a description of this character.
- Julian Schwinger
- Dirac
- Arline
- Hans Bethe
- Freeman Dyson
- Kutyna
- Einstein
- Wheeler
- Dick Feynman
- Niels Bohr
- Welton
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Wilson
- Slater
- Victor Weisskopf
- Heisenberg
- I. I. Rabi
- Wigner
- Murray
- Morse
- Gweneth
- Joan
- Slotnick
- Enrico Fermi
- Graham
- Carl
- Maxwell
- Schrodinger
- Goodstein
- Yang
- Rogers
- Tomonaga
- Barschall
- Pauli
- Newton
- Klaus Fuchs
- Von Neumann
Setting & Locations edit
- Princeton
- Los Alamos
- New York City
- Chicago
- Berkeley
- California
- Europe
- Pasadena
- Cornell
- America
- United States
- England
- Cambridge
- Pocono
- Albuquerque
- Columbia
- Germany
- Hiroshima
- Ithaca
- Long Island
- Far Rockaway
- Rochester
- Japan
- New Mexico
- Brazil
- Washington
- Rio
- Rome
- Manhattan Project
- Harvard
- Boston
- Zurich
- Soviet Union
- Los Angeles
- Schenectady
- Cedarhurst
- Copenhagen
First Sentence edit
Nothing is certain.
Authors & Contributors edit
- James Gleick (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
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Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1992
ISBN: 0679747044
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Publisher: Add the publisher.
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Publication Date: 1992
ISBN: 0679747044
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Awards edit
- Pulitzer Prize (Finalist, 1993: Biography)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 530.092
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