num_pages: 532
description: For nearly 50 years, until his death in 1988, aged 70, Richard Feynman's discoveries lay at the heart of the development of modern physics. Always controversial, Feynman (whom a colleague described as being like a combination of Groucho Marx and Alfred Einstein) was a key physicist from his days as part of the atom-bomb-making team at Los Alamos in the early 1940s, until his discovery of the reason for the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster 40 years later. This book combines Feynman's life-story with an account of his thought and its context.
language: English
title: Genius
titlecomplete: Genius
characters: Richard Feynman
genres: Audiobook, Popular Science, History, Autobiography, Science, History Of Science, Physics, Biography Memoir, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 23500
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Biography or Autobiography, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Little Brown