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Library Journal
Reviewed on May 15, 2011
Ottaviani's includes several anecdotes drawn from the remarkable life of Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Richard Feynman (1918–88). Those incidents are repeated here, woven into a full-length biography of this brilliant, irreverent, and insatiably curious man, moving from his early years when his father encouraged his interest in science, to his recruitment into the M...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2011
Richard Feynman was a brilliant theoretical physicist and an individualist of the first order. He worked at Los Alamos on the atomic bomb and won a Nobel Prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics; yet he spent two years designing and teaching a freshman physics course at Caltech and turned down staggeringly lucrative offers from rival universities because the money, he said, would "make me unhappy, and I wouldn't be able to do any physics." He was married three times; played the fri...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2011
Color by Hilary Sycamore. Richard Feynman was a brilliant theoretical physicist and an individualist of the highest order. The first-person graphic nove...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on August 1, 2011
This engaging first-person account follows the ups and downs of an unusual career, in a unique and unforgettable voice. Richard Feynman’s insatiable curiosity about the world around him—and his persistence in attempting to make sen...Log In or Sign Up to Read More