Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
by Richard Phillips Feynman and Ralph Leighton
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In this phenomenal bestseller, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman recounts his adventures trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek, painting a naked female toreador, accompanying a ballet on his bongo drums--and much else of an eyebrow-raising and hilarious nature. Photos.
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Brazil, Far Rockaway, Los Alamos, MIT, Princeton, United States, mei guoShowing 11 featured editions. View all 45 editions?
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Vy, konechno, shutite, mister Fei nman!: pokhozhdenii Ła udivitel £nogo cheloveka, povedannye im Ral £fu Lei tonu
2008, Izd-vo "KoLibri"
in Russian
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Bie dou le, Feiman xian sheng: guai cai li xian ji
2005, Hunan ke xue ji shu chu ban she
in Chinese
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
April 1997, W. W. Norton & Company
in English
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
April 1997, W. W. Norton & Company
in English
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
1992, Vintage Books
Paperback
in English
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
April 1989, Bantam Books
Paperback
in English
- Bantam trade edition from Bantam New Age Books
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"Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
June 1988, Bantam Books (Mm)
Paperback
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"Sie belieben wohl zu scherzen, Mr. Feynman!": Abenteuer e. neugierigen Physikers
1987, Piper
in German
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
January 1, 1986, Bantam
Mass Market Paperback
in English
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman": Adventures of a Curious Character
1985, W.W. Norton
in English
- First edition
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"WHEN I WAS about eleven or twelve I set up a lab in my house."
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The biography of the physicist and Nobel prize winner Richard P. Feynman - a collection of short stories, chapters told to and written down by Ralph Leighton.
Feynman tells of his childhood and youth and goes into his adult life, both personally and professionally.
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