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“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”
Adventures of a Curious CharacterBy Richard P. FeynmanNarrated by Raymond ToddLength11h 30m
About this audiobook
One of the most famous science books of our time, the phenomenal national bestseller that “buzzes with energy, anecdote and life. It almost makes you want to become a physicist” (Science Digest).
Richard Feynman, one of the world’s greatest theoretical physicists, thrived on adventure. His outrageous exploits once shocked a Princeton dean’s wife to exclaim: “Surely you’re joking, Mr. Feynman!”
In this phenomenal national bestseller, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist recounts in his inimitable voice his experiences trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek, painting a naked female toreador, accompanying a ballet on his bongo drums, and much else of an eyebrow-raising and hilarious nature. Woven together with his views on science, Feynman’s life story is a combustible mixture of high intelligence, unlimited curiosity, eternal skepticism, and raging chutzpah.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.4 (251.3K)
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GenreBiography and Memoir, Science and Nature
Length11 hrs 30 mins
Narrated byRaymond Todd
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJan 1, 1997
LanguageEnglish
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