Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965 Richard Feynman was one of the worlds greatest theoretical physicists but he was also a man who fell often jumped into adventure. An artist safecracker practical joker and storyteller Feynmans 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 Feynmans 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.