Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

By Richard Feynman

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs

Richard Feynman won the Nobel Prize in physics, but he may be better remembered for his curiosity and his love of mischief. In these stories, told in his own voice, he trades ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr, cracks safes holding nuclear secrets, plays bongo drums for a ballet, and talks gambling with Nick the Greek. Funny and irreverent, it's a portrait of a brilliant mind that never stopped playing.

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