Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
Written by James Gleick
Narrated by Dick Estell
4.5/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this audiobook
To his colleagues, Richard Feynman was not so much a genius as he was a full-blown magician: someone who "does things that nobody else could do and that seem completely unexpected." The path he cleared for twentieth-century physics led from the making of the atomic bomb to a Nobel Prize-winning theory of quantam electrodynamics to his devastating exposé of the Challenger space shuttle disaster. At the same time, the ebullient Feynman established a reputation as an eccentric showman, a master safe cracker and bongo player, and a wizard of seduction.
Now James Gleick, author of the bestselling Chaos, unravels teh dense skein of Feynman's thought as well as the paradoxes of his character in a biography-which was nominated for a National Book Award-of outstanding lucidity and compassion.
James Gleick
James Gleick was born in New York in 1954. He worked for ten years as an editor and reporter for The New York Times. He is the bestselling author of Chaos, Genius, Faster, What Just Happened and a biography of Isaac Newton.
More audiobooks from James Gleick
Isaac Newton Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prime Number Conspiracy: The Biggest Ideas in Math from Quanta Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to Genius
Related audiobooks
Meltdown: Nuclear disaster and the human cost of going critical Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Galactic Patrol Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stealing God's Thunder: Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Infernal: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dodo: A Detail of the Day Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFrankenstein Dreams: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Science Fiction Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Silent Bullet Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Poisoned Pen Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn the Courts of the Crimson Kings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Chariots of the Gods Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Einstein: His Life and Universe Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5H. P. Lovecraft – Horror Stories Vol. VI Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Life and Legacy of the Father of the Atomic Bomb Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Majestic 12: The History and Conspiracy Theories Surrounding the Federal Government’s Investigation of UFOs Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTwelve Stories and a Dream Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHelix Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChasing Heisenberg: The Race for the Atom Bomb Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Exploits Of Elaine Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBattlefield Earth Special Edition: A Saga of the Year 3000 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Van Rijn Method Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Fourth Estate Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Physics For You
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The World According to Physics Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Magick of Physics: Uncovering the Fantastical Phenomena in Everyday Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStarry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Quantum Physics: What Everyone Needs to Know Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Natural History of Color: The Science Behind What We See and How We See it Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Holographic Universe: The Revolutionary Theory of Reality Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beyond Weird Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Relativity of Einstein Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Midnight in Chernobyl: The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Quantum Spirituality: Science, Gnostic Mysticism, and Connecting with Source Consciousness Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Einstein: His Life and Universe Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Field Updated Ed: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Genius
3 ratings0 reviews