"Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character / Richard P. Feynman, as told to Ralph Leighton ; edited by Edward Hutchings ; introduction by Bill Gates

"First published as a Norton paperback 1997, reissued with a new Introduction 2018"--Title page verso.

Contents Include:

Part 1: From Far Rockway to MIT
He fixes radios by thinking!
String beans
Who stole the door?
Latin or Italian
Always trying to escape
The chief research chemist of the metaplast corportation

Part 2: The Princeton years
"Surely you're joking, Mr.Feynman!"
Meeeeeeeeeee!
A map of the cat?
Monster minds
Mixing paints
A different box of tools
Mindreaders
The amateur scientist

Part 3: Feynman, the bomb, and the military
Fizzled fuses
Testing bloodhounds
Los alamos from below
Safecracker meets safecracker
Uncle Sam doesn't want you!

Pat 4: From Cornell to Caltech, with a touch of Brazil
The dignified professor
Any questions?
I want my dollar!
You just ask them?
Lucky numbers
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
Thirteen times
It sounds Greek to me!
But is is Art?
Is electricity fire?
Judging books by their covers
Alfred Nobel's other mistake
Bringing culture to the physicists
Found out in Paris
Altered states
Cargo cult science


Includes index.