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Krauss, Lawrence Maxwell.

Quantum man : Richard Feynman's life in science / Lawrence M. Krauss. - 1st ed. - New York : Atlas & Co. : W.W. Norton, c2011. - xvii, 350 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. - Great discoveries . - Great discoveries. .

"Atlas Books."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The paths to greatness. Lights, camera, action ; The quantum universe ; A new way of thinking ; Alice in Quantumland ; Endings and beginnings ; Loss of innocence ; Paths to greatness ; From here to infinity ; Splitting an atom ; Through a glass darkly -- The rest of the universe. Matter of the heart and the heart of matter ; Rearranging the universe ; Hiding in the mirror ; Distractions and delights ; Twisting the tail of the cosmos ; From top to bottom ; Truth, beauty, and freedom -- Character is destiny.

Traces the colorful, turbulent life of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, from the death of his childhood sweetheart during the Manhattan Project to his rise as an icon in the scientific community.

ISBN: 9780393064711 (hbk.) 0393064719 (hbk.)

Standard No.: 99942000627

LCCN: 2010045512

Subjects--Personal Names:
Feynman, Richard P. 1918-1988.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Physicists--United States--Biography.

LC Class. No.: QC16.F49 / K73 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 530.092 B