Richard P. Feynman

What Do You Care What Other People Think: Further Adventures of a Curious Character (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Leighton, Ralph

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The New York Times best-selling sequel to "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"

One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" is Feynman's last literary legacy, prepared with his friend and fellow drummer, Ralph Leighton. Among its many talessome funny, others intensely movingwe meet Feynman's first wife, Arlene, who taught him of love's irreducible mystery as she lay dying in a hospital bed while he worked nearby on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos. We are also given a fascinating narrative of the investigation of the space shuttle Challenger's explosion in 1986, and we relive the moment when Feynman revealed the disaster's cause by an elegant experiment: dropping a ring of rubber into a glass of cold water and pulling it out, misshapen.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393079814
• Artikelnr.: 59591956

Autorenporträt

Richard P. Feynman (19181988) was a professor at Cornell University and CalTech and received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1965. In 1986 he served with distinction on the Rogers Commission investigating the space shuttle Challenger disaster.