Cover art for Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman
Published
Vintage Books, November 1992
ISBN
9780099173311
Format
Softcover, 368 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm × 2.2cm

Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton

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A portrait of the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, we see the wisdom, humour and curiosity of Richard Feynman through a series of conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton.

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life was a series of combustible combinations made possible by his unique mixture of high intelligence, unquenchable curiosity and eternal scepticism. Over a period of years, Feynman's conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton were first taped and then set down as they appear here, little changed from their spoken form, giving a wise, funny, passionate and totally honest self-portrait of one of the greatest men of our age.

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