Genius_ The Life and Science of Richard Feynman - James Gleick [320]
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British Broadcasting Corporation: Excerpt from” Fun to Imagine,” an interview between Richard Feynman and Christopher Sykes as broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1983. Used by permission.
David Higham Associates: Four lines from “Tattered Serenade,” from Collected Poems by Edith Sitwell, published by Macmillan London. Reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates.
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ISBN: 978-1-4532-1046-8
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Table of Contents
PROLOGUE
FAR ROCKAWAY
Neither Country nor City
A Birth and a Death
It’s Worth It
At School
All Things Are Made of Atoms
A Century of Progress
Richard and Julian
MIT
The Best Path
Socializing the Engineer
The Newest Physics
Shop Men
Feynman of Course Is Jewish
Forces in Molecules
I s He Good Enough?
PRINCETON
A Quaint Ceremonious Village
Folds and Rhythms
Forward or Backward?
The Reasonable Man
Mr. X and the Nature of Time
Least Action in Quantum Mechanics
The Aura
The White Plague
Preparing for War
The Manhattan Project
Finishing Up
LOS ALAMOS
The Man Comes In with His Briefcase
Chain Reactions
The Battleship and the Mosquito Boat
Diffusion
Computing by Brain
Computing by Machine
Fenced In
The Last Springtime
False Hopes
Nuclear Fear
I Will Bide My Time
We Scientists Are Clever
CORNELL
The University at Peace
Phenomena Complex—Laws Simple
They All Seem Ashes
Around a Mental Block
Shrinking the Infinities
Dyson
A Half-Assedly Thought-Out Pictorial Semi-Vision Thing
Schwinger’s Glory
My Machines Came from Too Far Away
There Was Also Presented (by Feynman) …
Cross-Country with Freeman Dyson
Oppenheimer’s Surrender
Dyson Graphs, Feynman Diagrams
Away to a Fabulous Land
CALTECH
Faker from Copacabana
Alas, the Love of Women!
Onward with Physics
A Quantum Liquid
New Particles, New Language
Murray
In Search of Genius
Weak Interactions
Toward a Domestic Life
From QED to Genetics
Ghosts and Worms
Room at the Bottom
All His Knowledge
The Explorers and the Tourists
The Swedish Prize
Quarks and Partons
Teaching the Young
Do You Think You Can Last On Forever?
Surely You’re Joking!
A Disaster of Technology
EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES
A FEYNMAN BIBLIOGRAPHY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS