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Adventures Of A Curious Character

by Richard P. Feynman
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Publisher: Random House, August of 2014 ‧
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In this warm, insightful portrait of the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, we see the wisdom, humour and curiosity of Richard Feynman through a series of conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton.

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world''s greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman''s life was a series of combustible combinations made possible by his unique mixture of high intelligence, unquenchable curiosity and eternal scepticism.

Over a period of years, Feynman''s conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton were first taped and then set down as they appear here, little changed from their spoken form, giving a wise, funny, passionate and totally honest self-portrait of one of the greatest men of our age.

Surely You'Re Joking Mr Feynman

Adventures Of A Curious Character

by Richard P. Feynman

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ISBN: 9781448181476
Publisher: Random House
Release Date: August of 2014
Language: English
Format: eBook
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Richard P. Feynman

O norte-americano Richard Feynman (1918-1988) é um dos maiores físicos do século XX. Recebeu o Prémio Nobel de Física de 1965 pela sua teoria da Eletrodinâmica Quântica (QED), a teoria quântica dos eletrões e dos fotões. Formado pelo MIT, depois de ter participado no projeto Manhattan, foi professor da Universidade Cornell e do Caltech (California Institute of Technology). Em 1986, foi membro da Comissão Rogers que investigou o desastre do vaivém espacial Challenger da NASA, tendo descoberto a origem da falha. Nas universidades de todo o mundo são famosas as Feynman Lectures on Physics. É autor dos seguintes livros publicados pela Gradiva, com sucessivas reedições: Está a Brincar, Sr. Feynman! (1988), QED – A estranha teoria da luz e da matéria (1988), Nem sempre a brincar, Sr. Feynman (1989), O Significado de Tudo (2000) e O Prazer da Descoberta (2006). Além do Nobel, Feynman ganhou a medalha Albert Einstein (1954) e a Medalha Nacional de Ciência (1979), entre outros prémios.

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