Richard Feynman's brilliance let him be selected to work on the Manhattan project was a member of the panel that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster. He was also known as a prankster, juggler, and an amateur painter and bongo player. Richard Feynman was regarded as an eccentric and a free spirit. He liked to pursue multiple, seemingly unrelated, paths, such as biology, art , percussion, Mayan Hieroglyphs, and lock picking. Especially about lock picking. It was one of the few things that immediately comes to mind when he told me about this book.
But its not just his achievements and abilities that make this book such an interesting one. The element of love is also unmistakable. The story of him and his wife, Arline is such a touching love story. Sadly, she was diagnosed with tuberculosis and died in 1945.
So, he was married a second time in June 1952, to Mary Louise Bell of Neodesha, Kansas; this marriage was brief and unsuccessful. He later married Gweneth Howarth from Ripponden, Yorkshire, who shared his enthusiasm for life and spirited adventure. Besides their home in Altadena, CAlifornia, they had a beach house in Baj California, the latter of which was purchased with the prize money from Feynman's Nobel Prize, at that time $55,000 (of which Feynman was entitled to a third). They remained married until Feynman's death. They had a son,Carl, in 1962, and adopted a daughter, Michelle, in 1968.
His theories of physics were phenomenal and groundbreaking. One that my father remembers well was his theory on percieving atoms as strings. It is still too difficult for me to comprehend but my father seems to understand it and appreciate it.
This is his message for all, this is one good book, and it is worth reading.
