Title:
Quantum man : Richard Feynman's life in science / Lawrence M. Krauss.
Author:
Krauss, Lawrence Maxwell.
Publication Information:
New York : Atlas & Co. : W.W. Norton, c2011.
Call Number:
QC16 .F49 K73 2011
Abstract:
Traces the colorful, turbulent life of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, from the death of his childhood sweetheart during the Manhattan Project to his rise as an icon in the scientific community.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780393064711
Series:
Great discoveries
Great discoveries.
Physical Description:
xvii, 350 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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"Atlas Books."
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Contents:
The paths to greatness. Lights, camera, action ; The quantum universe ; A new way of thinking ; Alice in Quantumland ; Endings and beginnings ; Loss of innocence ; Paths to greatness ; From here to infinity ; Splitting an atom ; Through a glass darkly -- The rest of the universe. Matter of the heart and the heart of matter ; Rearranging the universe ; Hiding in the mirror ; Distractions and delights ; Twisting the tail of the cosmos ; From top to bottom ; Truth, beauty, and freedom -- Character is destiny.
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