What Do You Care What Other People Think: Further Adventures of a Curious Character
A scientist and physicist, one of the greatest of the 20th century, and winner of the Nobel Prize, Richard Feynman worked on the atomic bomb and revealed the cause of the Challenger disaster. Before his death earlier this year, he worked with his friend Ralph Leighton to prepare this manuscript,...
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A scientist and physicist, one of the greatest of the 20th century, and winner of the Nobel Prize, Richard Feynman worked on the atomic bomb and revealed the cause of the Challenger disaster. Before his death earlier this year, he worked with his friend Ralph Leighton to prepare this manuscript, his last literary legacy. Illustrated.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780393026597 (0393026590)
Publish date: October 1st 1988
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
This audio CD of Feynman's second collection of autobiographical bits is a lot of fun to listen to. The part about the President's Commission on the Challenger Shuttle disaster was very powerful and wryly funny. Feynman was such a scientist, so intent of finding things out that he simply ignored the...
We were having a discussion about safety at NASA in another thread and I thought of this book, about half of which consists of an account of Feynman's role in the investigation following the Challenger disaster. One of the other reviewers complained that this section was too long, but I found it com...