Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

Why read it

• You will see why taking things apart, like the old radios Feynman opened as a boy, was once a well used path into science
• You will understand why the bomb left its makers uneasy, as ordinary people lived on unaware of the doom science had prepared
• You will notice how fragile a brilliant theory can be, when quantum mechanics worked roughly and then failed under pressure

Who it is for

• Physics student wanting the person behind the equations
• Curious reader who likes stories of science and war
• Anyone who tinkers and wants to see where it can lead

Contents

1. PROLOGUE
2. FAR ROCKAWAY
3. Neither Country nor City
4. A Birth and a Death
5. It’s Worth It
6. At School
7. All Things Are Made of Atoms
8. A Century of Progress
9. Richard and Julian
10. MIT
11. The Best Path
12. Socializing the Engineer
13. The Newest Physics
14. Shop Men
15. Feynman of Course Is Jewish
16. Forces in Molecules
17. Is He Good Enough?
18. PRINCETON
19. A Quaint Ceremonious Village
20. Folds and Rhythms
21. Forward or Backward?
22. The Reasonable Man
23. Mr. X and the Nature of Time
24. Least Action in Quantum Mechanics
25. The Aura
26. The White Plague
27. Preparing for War
28. The Manhattan Project
29. Finishing Up
30. LOS ALAMOS
31. The Man Comes In with His Briefcase
32. Chain Reactions
33. The Battleship and the Mosquito Boat
34. Diffusion
35. Computing by Brain
36. Computing by Machine
37. Fenced In
38. The Last Springtime
39. False Hopes
40. Nuclear Fear
41. I Will Bide My Time
42. We Scientists Are Clever
43. CORNELL
44. The University at Peace
45. Phenomena Complex—Laws Simple
46. They All Seem Ashes
47. Around a Mental Block
48. Shrinking the Infinities
49. Dyson
50. A Half-Assedly Thought-Out Pictorial Semi-Vision Thing

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