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Quantum Man

Quantum Man

Richard Feynman's Life in Science (Great Discoveries)

by Lawrence M. Krauss

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appears in Physics, Science, and Nonfiction.

Perhaps the greatest physicist of the second half of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman changed the way we think about quantum mechanics, the most perplexing of all physical theories. Here Lawrence M. Krauss, himself a theoretical physicist and bestselling author, offers a unique scientific biography: a rollicking narrative coupled with clear ...

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