Questa serie di libri offre uno sguardo affascinante sulla vita e sulla mente di uno degli scienziati più influenti del XX secolo. Attraverso aneddoti coinvolgenti e storie personali, i lettori vengono introdotti al suo lavoro rivoluzionario nella fisica quantistica. L'autore usa un incredibile umorismo e profondità per rivelare che la scienza non è arida, ma un'avventura entusiasmante. È una celebrazione della curiosità, dell'onestà intellettuale e della pura gioia della scoperta.
In this phenomenal bestseller, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman recounts his adventures trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek, painting a naked female toreador, accompanying a ballet on his bongo drums--and much else of an eyebrow-raising and hilarious nature. Photos.
Further Adventures of a Curious Character
When Richard Feynman, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics, died in February 1988 after a courageous battle with cancer, the "New York Times" called him "the most brilliant, iconoclastic, and influential of the postwar generation of theoretical physicists." Here, in these "further adventures, " a companion volume to "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, " is another healthy dose of Feynman's irreverent zest for life and an even deeper, wiser level of reminiscence. He tells us of his father, who taught him to think, and of his first wife, Arlene, who taught him to love, even as she lay dying. And Feynman takes us behind the scenes of the presidential commission investigating the space shuttle "Challenger's" explosion and to the dramatic moment when the cause of the disaster was revealed simply and elegantly as Feynman dropped a rubber ring into a glass of ice water and pulled it out, misshapen.