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What Do You Care What Other People

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"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further
What Do You Care What
Adventures of a Curious Character (1988) is the second of two books
Other People Think?
consisting of transcribed and edited, oral reminiscences from American
physicist Richard Feynman. It follows Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!.
Richard Feynman received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his
contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics. He is a
theoretical physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of
quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics
of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics
for which he proposed the parton model. For his contributions to the
development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman, jointly with Julian
Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics
in 1965.

Overview
The book, prepared as Feynman struggled with a rare form of cancer, was the
last of his autobiographical works.

The first section presents a series of humorous stories from different periods of 2001 paperback edition
his life, while the second chronicles his involvement on the Rogers Commission Author Richard Feynman
investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. In one chapter, he
Country United States
describes an impromptu experiment in which he showed how the O-rings in
the shuttle's rocket boosters could have failed due to cold temperatures on the Language English
morning of the launch. This failure was later determined to be the primary Subject Autobiography,
cause of the shuttle's destruction. This part of the book was dramatized on the Biography
screen as The Challenger Disaster, a TV movie by BBC/Science Channel. Genre Non-fiction

The book is much more loosely organized than the earlier Surely You're Publisher W. W. Norton (US)
Joking, Mr. Feynman! It contains short stories, letters, photographs, and a few Publication October, 1988 (US)
of the sketches that Feynman created in later life when he had learned to draw date
from an artist friend, Jirayr Zorthian. Media type Print (Hardcover &
paperback) also
Of note is the story of his first wife, Arline, who was diagnosed with audio book
tuberculosis. She died while Feynman was working on the Manhattan Project;
Pages 256 pp (US
the book's title is taken from a question she often put to him when he seemed
hardcover edition) &
preoccupied with his colleagues' opinions about his work, which echoed his
256 pp (US
earlier words to her.
paperback edition)
The book concludes with "The Value of Science," an address he gave at the 1955 ISBN 0-393-02659-0 (1988
autumn meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. hardcover edition),

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Editions ISBN 0-393-32092-8

(2001 paperback
Feynman, Richard P., What Do You Care What Other People Think?, edition)
1988, W W Norton, ISBN 0-393-02659-0, 2001 paperback: ISBN 0-393-
32092-8 OCLC 18224735 (https://ww
w.worldcat.org/oclc/1
8224735)
See also
Dewey 530/.092 B 20
Richard Feynman; § Challenger disaster Decimal
LC Class QC16.F49 A3 1988
Preceded by Surely You're Joking,
Mr. Feynman!

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