Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman Adventures of a Curious Character

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BILL GATES. In this warm insightful portrait of the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965 we see the wisdom humour and curiosity of Richard Feynman through a series of conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton.. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965 Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists but he was also a man who fell often jumped into adventure. An artist safecracker practical joker and storyteller Feynman's 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 Feynman's 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.