Quantum man : Richard Feynman's life in science / Lawrence M. Krauss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krauss, Lawrence M., 1954-

Series:

Great discoveries

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988.

Feynman, Richard P.

Physicists--United States--Biography.

Physicists.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Atlas & Co. : W.W. Norton, [2011]

Summary:

Traces the colorful, turbulent life of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, from the death of his childhood sweetheart during the Manhattan Project to his rise as an icon in the scientific community.

Contents:

The paths to greatness. Lights, camera, action ; The quantum universe ; A new way of thinking ; Alice in Quantumland ; Endings and beginnings ; Loss of innocence ; Paths to greatness ; From here to infinity ; Splitting an atom ; Through a glass darkly

The rest of the universe. Matter of the heart and the heart of matter ; Rearranging the universe ; Hiding in the mirror ; Distractions and delights ; Twisting the tail of the cosmos ; From top to bottom ; Truth, beauty, and freedom

Character is destiny.

Notes:

"Atlas Books."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780393064711

0393064719

OCLC:

601108916