Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985) shares amusing and illuminating anecdotes from the life of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman. From his unorthodox problem-solving methods to his rejection of pomp and pretense, it offers an insightful look at Feynman's iconoclastic personality and approach to science.

Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988) was an American physicist. He studied at MIT and Princeton before joining the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos during World War II, where he helped develop the atomic bomb. After the war, Feynman taught at Cornell and Caltech, where he had a distinguished career until his death. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his groundbreaking work in quantum electrodynamics. In 1986, he contributed to the investigation of the Challenger space shuttle disaster as part of the Rogers Commission.