Bibliograph

Quantum man, Richard Feynman's life in science, Lawrence M. Krauss

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Quantum man, Richard Feynman's life in science, Lawrence M. Krauss

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Quantum man

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

601108916

Responsibility statement

Lawrence M. Krauss

Series statement

Great discoveries

Sub title

Richard Feynman's life in science

Summary

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

Table Of 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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