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"surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"

Richard Phillips Feynman

A collection of often humorous anecdotes about the 1965 Nobel Prize winner for physics.

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FEYNMAN

Sir Isaac Newton

Kerri O'Donnell

This book looks at some of Newton's most important ideas and describes how his three laws of motion are used to solve problems.

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New

Michael Faraday

Colin Archibald Russell

A biography of the nineteenth-century English scientist whose religious beliefs guided his exploration of electricity and magnetism.

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Faraday

Enrico Fermi

Dan Cooper

A biography of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose work led to the discovery of nuclear fission, the basis of nuclear power and the atom bomb.

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Fermi

Einstein

Peter D. Smith

Offers a biographical profile of Albert Einstein, discussing both his contributions to science and his emotional and personal life.

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EINSTEIN

Einstein

John B. Severance

A biography of Einstein which focuses on the originality of his theories and the contradictions in his character.

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EINSTEIN

Isaac Newton

James Gleick

Chronicles the life of pioneering seventeenth-century scientist Isaac Newton, describing the world in which he lived, examining the contradictory elements of his personality, and discussing his place

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NEWTON

"what Do You Care What Other People Think?"

Richard Phillips Feynman

Richard Feynman recounts his life with his late wife and discusses his involvement in the investigation of the Challenger space shuttle disaster.

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FEYNMAN

"surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"

Richard Phillips Feynman

A collection of often humorous anecdotes about the 1965 Nobel Prize winner for physics.

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FEYNMAN

Genius

James Gleick

Biography of physicist Richard Feynman from his childhood to genius of modern physics. Also reveals the darker side of the man.

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