FEYNMAN, Richard; as told to by Ralph Leighton.
"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character, as told to Ralph Leighton.
First Edition of "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character; signed by Richard P. Feynman
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1988.
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First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist's final autobiographical work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Richard P. Feynman on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mike McIver. Jacket photograph by Faustin Bray.
One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" is Feynman’s last literary legacy, prepared with his friend and fellow drummer, Ralph Leighton. Among its many tales―some funny, others intensely moving―we meet Feynman’s first wife, Arlene, who taught him of love’s irreducible mystery as she lay dying in a hospital bed while he worked nearby on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos. We are also given a fascinating narrative of the investigation of the space shuttle Challenger’s explosion in 1986, and we relive the moment when Feynman revealed the disaster’s cause by an elegant experiment: dropping a ring of rubber into a glass of cold water and pulling it out, misshapen.
"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character, as told to Ralph Leighton.
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