An extraordinary volume of never-before-published letters written by one of America's most beloved scientists. Richard P. Feynman, brilliant physicist and beloved teacher, is an iconic figure in the world of science. Born in 1918 in Brooklyn, Feynman received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1942. Despite his youth, he played an important part in the Manhattan Project during World War II, going on to teach at both Cornell and the California Institute of Technology, and winning the Nobel Prize in physics in 1965 for his research ...
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An extraordinary volume of never-before-published letters written by one of America's most beloved scientists. Richard P. Feynman, brilliant physicist and beloved teacher, is an iconic figure in the world of science. Born in 1918 in Brooklyn, Feynman received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1942. Despite his youth, he played an important part in the Manhattan Project during World War II, going on to teach at both Cornell and the California Institute of Technology, and winning the Nobel Prize in physics in 1965 for his research in quantum electrodynamics. Many remember his work on the Challenger commission, in particular his famous O-ring experiment, which required nothing more than a glass of ice water. Besides his work as a physicist, Feynman was at various times an artist, dancer, bongo player, and lock picker.While there have been many books celebrating his myriad scientific achievements and personal eccentricities, his personal correspondence has remained largely hidden from viewburied in the archive at Caltech or locked in a box in his daughter's Pasadena home. Now, for the first time, we have the privilege of reading his wonderful letters to students, long-lost relatives, former
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. New York: Basic Books, 2005. 1st printing. Small black remainder mark on bottom page edges. 486pp. Light rubbed jacket is unclipped. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo-8"-9" Tall.
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Very good in very good jacket. 486 pages, illus., appendices, index. Foreword by Timothy Ferris. Richard Feynman played an important role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II, and won the Nobel Prize for his work on the development of the theory of quantum electrodynamics. This career-spanning collection of letters, many published for the first time, begins with a short note home in his first days as a graduate student, and ends with a letter to a stranger seeking his advice decades later. The editor, Michelle Feynman, was Richard Feynman's daughter.
