Genius

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Publication Year:
2011

ISBN-13: 9781453210437

<DIV><B><I>New York Times</I> Bestseller: This life story of the quirky physicist is &ldquo;a thorough and masterful portrait of one of the great minds of the century&rdquo; (<I>The New York Review of Books</I>).</B><DIV>&#160;</DIV><DIV>Raised in Depression-era Rockaway Beach, physicist Richard Feynman was irreverent, eccentric, and childishly enthusiastic&mdash;a new kind of scientist in a field that was in its infancy. His quick mastery of quantum mechanics earned him a place at Los Alamos working on the Manhattan Project under J. Robert Oppenheimer, where the giddy young man held his own among the nation&rsquo;s greatest minds. There, Feynman turned theory into practice, culminating in the Trinity test, on July 16, 1945, when the Atomic Age was born. He was only twenty-seven. And he was just getting started.</DIV><DIV>&#160;</DIV><DIV>In this sweeping biography, James Gleick captures the forceful personality of a great man, integrating Feynman&rsquo;s work and life in a way that is accessible to laymen and fascinating for the scientists who follow in his footsteps.</DIV></DIV>