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  • Brilliant!

  • Both Feynman and the book.

    If any scientist ever has the need to be humbled, reading this book will surely do it.

    The topic of genius is an interest of mine and few books do as good a job of letting you into the mind of one.

    

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From the author of the national bestseller Chaos, a wonderful journey into the life and times of one of the most interesting men of science.

Richard Feynman's life encompassed the most important discoveries and changes in science in this century. As a boy he tinkered with radios and as a scientist he looked at all things from an unusual and unique perspective. Richard Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize, was an eccentric and hard-driven perfectionist -- a genius indeed. Feynman's career touched on every area of modern science: from the Manhattan Project to quantum mechanics, to the Space Shuttle Commission. Beyond the importance of the physicist, we learn of a man whose emotional demons made him all the more human. In the hands of gifted writer James Gleick, Richard Feynman is a man worth knowing.

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