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Richard Phillips Feynman, Ralph Leighton
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman"

BiographyScience

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman"

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First published: 1985
Editions: 40 in 5 languages

Synopsis

The biography of the physicist and Nobel prize winner Richard P. Feynman - a collection of short stories, chapters told to and written down by Ralph Leighton. Feynman tells of his childhood and youth and goes into his adult life, both personally and professionally.

Subjects: Biography
Science
Biographies
Art
Humor
Music
Set in: United States
Brazil
Mei guo
Princeton
Time: 1930s; 1960s; Xian Dai; 1950s
Characters: Albert Einstein
Richard Phillips Feynman
J. Robert Oppenheimer

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40 in 5 languages

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English21 Chinese2 Russian2 German1 All 5 languages

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