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

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.

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Main Author: Krauss, Lawrence Maxwell
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Atlas & Co. : W.W. Norton, c2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Great discoveries.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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