In Genius, James Gleick, author of the acclaimed best-seller Chaos, shows us a Feynman few have seen. His curiosity moved well beyond things scientific: he taught himself how to play drums, to give massages, to write Chinese, to crack safes. But there was also another side to him, one which made him a legendary figure among scientists. Never content with what he knew or with what others knew, Feynman ceaselessly questioned scientific truths. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic critic of the space shuttle commission, Nobel Prize winner for work that gave physicists a new way of describing and calculating the interactions of subatomic particles, Richard Feynman left his mark on virtually every area of modern physics. To his scientific colleagues, Richard Feynman was a magician of the highest caliber. Física, Physicists, Physicists/ United States/ Biography, Physics, Physics/ History/ 20th CenturyĪ genius, a great mathematician once said, performs magic, does things that nobody else could do.
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