num_pages: 3
description: 2 cassettes / 3 hoursRead by F. Murray AbrahamFrom the author of the national bestseller Chaos, a wonderful journey into the life and times of one of the most interesting men of science.Richard Feynman's life encompassed the most important discoveries and changes in science in this century. As a boy, he tinkered with radios and as a scientist he looked at all things from an unusual and unique perspective. Richard Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize, was an eccentric and hard-driven perfectionist - a genius indeed.Feynman's career touched on every area of modern science: from the Manhattan Project to quantum mechanics, to the Space Shuttle Commission. Beyond the importance of the physics, we earn of a man whose emotional demons made him all the more human, . In the hands of gifted writer James Gleick, Richard Feynman is a man worth knowing.
language: English
title: Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
titlecomplete: Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
characters: Richard Feynman
genres: Biography, Popular Science, History Of Science, History, Science, Autobiography, Physics, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Audiobook
ratings_count: 23500
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Biography or Autobiography, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Random House Audio