Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick

Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

James Gleick

489 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction biography science informative slow-paced

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New York Times Bestseller: This life story of the quirky physicist is “a thorough and masterful portrait of one of the great minds of the century” (The New York Review of Books). Raised in Depression-era Rockaway Beach, physicist Richard Feynman w...

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