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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
by Feynman, Richard Phillips, ed. by Jeffrey Robbins
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- ISBN 10
- 0738201081
- ISBN 13
- 9780738201085
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Reading, MA: Perseus Books Group, 1999. Third Printing. very good, very good. 270, illus., index. Introduction by Jeffrey Robbins. Foreword by Freeman Dyson. The late Richard P. Feynman won the 1965 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on quantum electrodynamics. This collection of talks, interviews, and essays offers a memorable sample of the wit, brilliance, and irreverence of the most celebrated physicist of our time. Movingly eloquent, the piecesrange from computers to the role of science in society. This collection of Feynman's best short works includes uproarious tales of Feynman's student experiments, his famous report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, his experiences on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos during World War II, and stories of the physicist as a child.
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- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41324
- Title
- The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
- Author
- Feynman, Richard Phillips, ed. by Jeffrey Robbins
- Book Condition
- Used - very good, very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0738201081
- ISBN 13
- 9780738201085
- Publisher
- Perseus Books Group
- Place of Publication
- Reading, MA
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- Los Alamos, NM, Nobel Prize, Challenger Disaster, Atomic Bomb, Nuclear Weapons, Censorship, Cargo Cults, Manhattan Project, Quantum Physics
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