By Richard P. Feynman
A portrait of the past due Nobel Prize-winning physicist in line with his personal phrases and people of his neighbors, relations, and associates recounts his early enthusiasm for technological know-how, paintings at the atom bomb and the inquiry into the Challenger catastrophe, and different stories. 15,000 first printing
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