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    Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
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    Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
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    Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

    Written by James Gleick

    Narrated by Dick Estell

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    To his colleagues, Richard Feynman was not so much a genius as he was a full-blown magician: someone who "does things that nobody else could do and that seem completely unexpected." The path he cleared for twentieth-century physics led from the making of the atomic bomb to a Nobel Prize-winning theory of quantam electrodynamics to his devastating exposé of the Challenger space shuttle disaster. At the same time, the ebullient Feynman established a reputation as an eccentric showman, a master safe cracker and bongo player, and a wizard of seduction.

    Now James Gleick, author of the bestselling Chaos, unravels teh dense skein of Feynman's thought as well as the paradoxes of his character in a biography-which was nominated for a National Book Award-of outstanding lucidity and compassion.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 1, 2011
    ISBN9780307915108
    Author

    James Gleick

    James Gleick was born in New York in 1954. He worked for ten years as an editor and reporter for The New York Times. He is the bestselling author of Chaos, Genius, Faster, What Just Happened and a biography of Isaac Newton.

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