“Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman!”

About the Author

Introduction by Albert R. Hibbs

Part 1: FROM FAR ROCKAWAY TO MIT

He Fixes Radios by Thinking!

Who Stole the Door?

Latin or Italian?

Always Trying to Escape

The Chief Research Chemist of the Metaplast Corporation

Part 2: THE PRINCETON YEARS

“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”

A Map of the Cat?

A Different Box of Tools

The Amateur Scientist

Part 3: FEYNMAN, THE BOMB, AND THE MILITARY

Testing Bloodhounds

Los Alamos from Below

Safecracker Meets Safecracker

Uncle Sam Doesn’t Need You!

Part 4: FROM CORNELL TO CALTECH, WITH A TOUCH OF BRAZIL

The Dignified Professor

I Want My Dollar!

You Just Ask Them?

O Americano, Outra Vez!

Man of a Thousand Tongues

Certainly, Mr. Big!

An Offer You Must Refuse

Part 5: THE WORLD OF ONE PHYSICIST

Would You Solve the Dirac Equation?

The 7 Percent Solution

It Sounds Greek to Me!

Is Electricity Fire?

Judging Books by Their Covers

Alfred Nobel’s Other Mistake

Bringing Culture to the Physicists

Found Out in Paris

Cargo Cult Science