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A gripping new scientific biography of the revered Nobel Prize-winning physicist (and curious character) Richard Feynman. Perhaps the greatest physicist of the second half of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman changed the way we think about quantum mechanics, the most perplexing of... read more
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- Richard Feynman: Add a description of this character.
- Dirac
- Hans Bethe
- John Wheeler
- Julian Schwinger
- Arline
- Freeman Dyson
- Einstein
- Robert Oppenheimer
- Marshak
- Bjorken
- Gell-mann
- Onsager
- Slotnick
- Snell
- Hillis
- Glashow
- Landau
- Yang
- Wilson
- Dick
- Schrödinger
- Lee
- Ted Welton
- Bohr
- Carl
- Zweig
- Wolfgang Pauli
- Heisenberg
- Gweneth
- Sudarshan
First Sentence edit
Could one have guessed while he was still a child that Richard Feynman would become perhaps the greatest, and probably the most beloved, physicist of the last half of the twentieth century?
Table of Contents edit
Introduction
Part I: The Paths to greatness
Chapter 1: Lights, Camera, Action
Chapter 2: The Quantum Universe
Chapter 3: A New Way of Thinking
Chapter 4: Alice in Quantumland
Chapter 5: Endings and Beginnings
Chapter 6: Loss of Innocence
Chapter 7: Paths to Greatness
Chapter 8: From Here to Infinity
Chapter 9: Splitting an Atom
Chapter 10: Through a Glass Darkly
Part II: The Rest of the Universe
Chapter 11: Matter of the Heart and the Heat of Matter
Chapter 12: Rearranging the Universe
Chapter 13: Hiding in the Mirror
Chapter 14: Distractions and Delights
Chapter 15: Twisting the Tail of the Cosmos
Chapter 16: From Top to Bottom
Chapter 17: Truth, Beaty, and Freedom
Epilogue: Character Is Destiny
Acknowledgments and Sources
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- Lawrence M. Krauss (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton and Company
Country: USA
Publication Date: March 21, 2011
ISBN: 978-0393064711
Page Count: 350
Publisher: W. W. Norton and Company
Country: USA
Publication Date: March 21, 2011
ISBN: 978-0393064711
Page Count: 350
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- Dewey: 509
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