A book entitled "Surely you're joking Mr Feynman" by Feynman a nobel prize winning theoretical physicist. (1/3 of the prize - quantum electrodynamics). And judging by the book, a Nobel prize winning narcisist too. Whilst the subject he got his prize for is interesting, or would be if I understoood it, his practical jokes and bongo drumming figure much larger in the book and mostly are schoolboy stuff.
He could also have written interestingly on the tecnicalities of the atom bomb and the work at los Alamos where he spent his war years.
A young man working with my son read physics at Oxford as I did and recommended the book as the most interesting he had read for some time. It doesnt reflect that well on the young man to be honest.
Last edited by howard; 06/09/20 07:57 PM.
