Safecracking at Los Alamos, samba drumming in Brazil, a lecture built from first principles: Richard Feynman's memoir is a run of episodes rather than a life story.
Assembled from conversations with Ralph Leighton, the book moves from a childhood spent fixing radios through graduate work, the Manhattan Project, and years of teaching, painting, learning languages and testing whatever claim happened to irritate him. The pleasure lies in the method on display: take nothing on authority, ask the obvious question, then check. Very little of it requires any physics, and the voice on the page is the one that made his lectures famous.
Where its value lies:
• Short, self-contained stories that can be read in any order
• A working scientist's scepticism shown in action rather than explained
• Episodes from Los Alamos, Cornell, Caltech and travels well outside the lab
• Written for general readers, with no technical background assumed
Recommended for science readers, students and anyone who enjoys a good anecdote, stocked by Boipoka.
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