Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

The New York Times bestseller from the author of Chaos, a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist. An "engaging portrait" of the quirky physicist (The Boston Globe).

Raised in Depression-era Rockaway Beach, physicist Richard Feynman was irreverent, eccentric, and childishly enthusiastic—a new kind of scientist in a field that was in its infancy. His quick mastery of quantum mechanics earned him a place at Los Alamos working on the Manhattan Project under J. Robert Oppenheimer, where ...