"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman"
Subtitle: Adventures of a Curious Character
By: Richard P. Feynman as told to Ralph Leighton ; edited by Edward Hutchings.
Contributors: Leighton, Ralph.; Hutchings, Edward.
Edition: First edition
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 1985
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780393019216
Subjects: Feynman, Richard Phillips; Physicists -- United States -- Biography; Science -- Humor
Description: 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 skepticism. 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.
Notes: Includes index.