TY - BOOK AU - Feyman, R P. AU - Richard P Feynman TI - Surely You are Joking Mr. Feyman SN - 9780099173311 U1 - 812.54 FEY PY - 1992/// PB - Vintage Book KW - Physics KW - Theoretical physicists KW - Scepticism N2 - Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life was a series of combustible combinations made possible by his unique mixture of high intelligence, unquenchable curiosity and eternal scepticism. Over a period of years, Feynman's conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton were first taped and then set down as they appear here, little changed from their spoken form, giving a wise, funny, passionate and totally honest self-portrait of one of the greatest men of our age ER -