For nearly 50 years, until his death in 1988, aged 70, Richard Feynman's discoveries lay at the heart of the development of modern physics. Always controversial, Feynman (whom a colleague described as being like a combination of Groucho Marx and Alfred Einstein) was a key physicist from his days as part of the atom-bomb-making team at Los Alamos in the early 1940s, until his discovery of the reason for the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster 40 years later. This book combines Feynman's life-story with an account of his thought and its context.
- ISBN10 0679408363
- ISBN13 9780679408369
- Publish Date 29 September 1992
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Random House USA Inc
- Imprint Pantheon Books Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 532
- Language English