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Feynman grappled with the big questions about matter, science, and the quest for human knowledge and understanding. And in this bio of Feynman, who was one of the midwives of the atomic bomb, Gleick illustrates just how important Feynman’s thinking has been to our modern understanding of physics, and therefore, of energy. I recently finished reading Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, by James Gleick. The accuracy and notes associated with this book, but a lot of the magic of the book existed in Feynman himself and not in the telling of it.more I appreciated the time spent on the details. It also was a bit stronger and more robust than Gleick's earlier work: Chaos: Making a New Science.Īll that said, it still wasn't an AMAZING biography. Those diversions and Gleick's occasional riffs on the idea of genius keep this from being just an average scientific biography. Gleick elaborates, provides more detail, adds interesting vignettes on other Physicists that fell into Feynman's orbit (Wilson, Oppenheimer, Dyson, Dirac, Bohr, Schwinger, Gell-Mann, etc). Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character. Gleick doesn't stray, however, too far from the anecdotal autobiography of Feynman in Surely You're Joking, Mr. The book itself is a very good example of scientific biography. All of these things combined with Feynman's iconoclastic nature, his perseverance and single-mindedness, his capacity to get to the root of problems, put Feynman second to Einstein in 20th century minds. Third, Feynman was lucky to have participated in WWII's war of the magicians (Los Alamos and the Atomic Bomb).
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He was there when physicists (post Einstein's relativity) seemed to grab a larger piece of global attention. He came into his abilities at the right moment for Physics. Second, Feynman was lucky to be born at the right time. First, the guy was born with a brain that somehow gave him access to problems with a speed and a dexterity that seemed magical to his peers, and his peers are people that already often stretched the capacity for knowledge and intelligence. "Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."įeynman was lucky in three ways. Seco "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool." "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard Feynman "Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it." - Richard Feynman Feynman was lucky in three ways. In this sweeping biography, James Gleick captures the forceful personality of a great man, integrating Feynman’s work and life in a way that is accessible to laymen and fascinating for the scientists who follow in his footsteps.more There, Feynman turned theory into practice, culminating in the Trinity test, on July 16, 1945, when the Atomic Age was born. Robert Oppenheimer, where the giddy young man held his own among the nation’s greatest minds. His quick mastery of quantum mechanics earned him a place at Los Alamos working on the Manhattan Project under J. Raised in Depression-era Rockaway Beach, physicist Richard Feynman was irreverent, eccentric, and childishly enthusiastic-a new kind of scientist in a field that was in its infancy. His quick maste An illuminating portrayal of Richard Feynman-a giant of twentieth century physics-from his childhood tinkering with radios, to his vital work on the Manhattan Project and beyond B.V.An illuminating portrayal of Richard Feynman-a giant of twentieth century physics-from his childhood tinkering with radios, to his vital work on the Manhattan Project and beyond Raised in Depression-era Rockaway Beach, physicist Richard Feynman was irreverent, eccentric, and childishly enthusiastic-a new kind of scientist in a field that was in its infancy.