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New York Times Bestseller: This life story of the quirky physicist is "a thorough and masterful portrait of one of the great minds of the century" (
The New York Review of Books).
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Raised in Depression-era Rockaway Beach, physicist Richard Feynman was irreverent, eccentric, and childishly enthusiastic—a new kind of scientist in a field that was in its infancy. His quick mastery of quantum mechanics earned him a place at Los Alamos working on the Manhattan Project under J. Robert Oppenheimer, where the giddy young man held his own among the nation's greatest minds. There, Feynman turned theory into practice, culminating in the Trinity test, on July 16, 1945, when the Atomic Age was born. He was only twenty-seven. And he was just getting started.
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In this sweeping biography, James Gleick captures the forceful personality of a great man, integrating Feynman's work and life in a way that is accessible to laymen and fascinating for the scientists who follow in his footsteps.
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Raised in Depression-era Rockaway Beach, physicist Richard Feynman was irreverent, eccentric, and childishly enthusiastic—a new kind of scientist in a field that was in its infancy. His quick mastery of quantum mechanics earned him a place at Los Alamos working on the Manhattan Project under J. Robert Oppenheimer, where the giddy young man held his own among the nation's greatest minds. There, Feynman turned theory into practice, culminating in the Trinity test, on July 16, 1945, when the Atomic Age was born. He was only twenty-seven. And he was just getting started.
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In this sweeping biography, James Gleick captures the forceful personality of a great man, integrating Feynman's work and life in a way that is accessible to laymen and fascinating for the scientists who follow in his footsteps.
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INDEX
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F | G | H | I | J
K | L | M | N | O
P | Q | R | S | T
U | V | W | X | Y | Z
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Aberdeen Proving Ground (Md.), 182
absorber theory, see Wheeler-Feynman electrodynamics
action, 59-61, 131-32, 226, 229, 247-48. See also least action, principle of Planck’s constant and, 71
action at a distance, 101-2, 128
Aldrich, Arnold, 419-20
algebra, 29-30, 33-34, 36, 183, 362, 401
Alice in Wonderland (Carroll), 124
Alpert, Richard, 406
American Broadcasting Corporation, 378
American Museum of Natural History (New York), 25
American Physical Society, 53
meetings, 40, 117, 252, 270, 301, 354-55, 411-12
Ampère, Andrè-Marie, 320
analogy, 404
Anderson, Carl, 81, 253
anthropology, 287, 290
antigravity, 295, 407
antimatter, 7, 122, 253-54, 305, 334, 407
and time reversal, 82, 123, 258, 272-73
anti-Semitism, 23, 49, 53, 62, 84-85, 167, 233
Archimedes, 315
Aristotle, 359
Armstrong, Neil, 417, 423
Army, United States, 137, 182, 414-15
Feynman as consultant, 295
Los Alamos and, 161, 187, 192-93, 198-99
Oppenheimer and, 158-59
secrecy and, 166, 169
Ashkin, Julius, 192
Associated Press, 378
astrology, 373-74
athletics, 327-28
atom, 36-39, 58-59, 114. See also hydrogen; uranium
models of, 5, 71-72, 95, 99, 241-43
nucleus, 9, 79-80, 89-90, 130, 264, 307, 392
atomic bomb. See also Los Alamos
Bethe-Feynman formula, 6, 168
chain reaction, 161-63, 172-73, 197
compu...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Prologue
- Far Rockaway
- MIT
- Princeton
- Los Alamos
- Cornell
- Caltech
- Epilogue
- Image Gallery
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- A Feynman Bibliography
- Bibliography
- Index
- Illustration Credits