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    The Return

    Victoria Hislop

What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character

by Richard P Feynman

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ISBN13: 9780393320923
ISBN10: 0393320928
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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, which he prepared as he struggled with cancer. Among its many tales — some funny, others intensely moving — we 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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"[T]wo essays touch genuine depths of feeling: his tribute to his father, who taught him to cultivate a sense of wonder, and his account of his love affair with his first wife." Publishers Weekly

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"The book's second half is the high point; it is topical, entertaining, and illuminating, and telells of Feynman's work on the Rogers Commission, which investigated the Challenger space shuttle disaster." Library Journal

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One of the greatest physicists of the 20th century, Richard Feynman, possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure, and leaves a literary legacy in this work in the "New York Times" bestseller, which he prepared as he struggled with cancer.
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ISBN:
9780393320923
Leighton, Ralph:
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Author:
Leighton, Ralph
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Author:
Feynman, Richard Phillips
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Location:
New York
Subject:
Science
Subject:
Physics
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Physicists
Subject:
Scientists
Subject:
Scientists - General
Subject:
Physicists -- United States.
Copyright:
1988
Series Volume:
RP-592
Publication Date:
January 2001
Binding:
Paper Textbook
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
255
Dimensions:
828x558x61 51
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