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Further Adventures Of A Curious Character

by Richard P. Feynman
language: english
Publisher: W. W. NORTON & COMPANY, February of 2011 ‧
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The New York Times best-selling sequel to "Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!"

One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" is Feynman’s last literary legacy, prepared with his friend and fellow drummer, Ralph Leighton. Among its many tales—some funny, others intensely moving—we meet Feynman’s first wife, Arlene, who taught him of love’s irreducible mystery as she lay dying in a hospital bed while he worked nearby on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos. We are also given a fascinating narrative of the investigation of the space shuttle Challenger’s explosion in 1986, and we relive the moment when Feynman revealed the disaster’s cause by an elegant experiment: dropping a ring of rubber into a glass of cold water and pulling it out, misshapen. 

"What Do You Care What Other People Think?"

Further Adventures Of A Curious Character

by Richard P. Feynman

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ISBN: 9780393079814
Publisher: W. W. NORTON & COMPANY
Release Date: February of 2011
Language: English
Pages: 256
Format: eBook
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EAN: 9780393079814
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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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