Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick

Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

James Gleick

560 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction biography science informative slow-paced
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To his colleagues, Richard Feynman was not so much a genius as he was a full-blown magician: someone who "does things that nobody else could do and that seem completely unexpected." The path he cleared for twentieth-century physics led from the ma...

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