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David
Jul 18, 2020 rated it it was ok
Shelves: physics, z-2020, biography
Nope! This is not the book to inspire you to go into physics. Too much morbidity talking about Feynman's cancer and imminent death. The book revolves around the author as a new prof at Caltech, with Nobel winners Richard Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann down the hall from his office in 1981. Feynman was already past his cancer life-expectancy, yet in another five years (1986) diagnosed the Challenger accident, and did not die until Feb 1988. This book sounded like the author was going to be the last ...more
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