Book Description
Richard Feynman tells some of his most infamous stories: Chief Research Chemist, I Want My Dollah, 13 Times, and Judging Books by Their Covers. All from the original recordings made by Ralph Leighton and edited with assistance from Tohru Ohnuki. You're read these stories in his books Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman and What Do You Care what Other People Think, now hear them just as "The Chief" told them!
About the author
Richard Feynman was born on May 11, 1918 in Brooklyn, NY. He attended MIT and was awarded his Ph.D. from Princeton University. During World War II, he participated in the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, New Mexico. After the war, he accepted a teaching position at Cornell University, and in 1950, he accepted a position at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He remained there until his death in 1988. Feynman is well-known for his work in quantumelectrodynamics (QED), which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. He also contributed to the understanding of superfluidity in liquid helium and the underlying causes of the Challenger shuttle explosion. Feynman reached popular audiences through his semi-autobiographical books, and is respected for his humor, storytelling, and bongo playing. He is considered by many to be the greatest and most popular physicist in modern times.
