"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

Introduction by Albert R. Hibbs . . . 9 Vitals . . . 11 Part 1- From Far Rockaway to MIT . . . 15 . . He Fixes Radios by Thinking! . . . 15 . . String Beans . . . 25 . . Who Stole the Door? . . . 30 . . Latin or Italian . . . 42 . . Always Trying to Escape . . . 45 . . The Chief Research Chemist of the Metaplast Corporation . . . 53 Part 2 - The Princeton Years . . . 59 . . "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" . . . 59 . . Meeeeeeeeeee! . . . 66 . . A Map of the Cat? . . . 69 . . Monster Minds . . . 77 . . Mixing Paints . . . 81 . . A Different Box of Tools . . . 84 . . Mindreaders . . . 88 . . The Amateur Scientists . . . 91 Part 3 - Feynman, the Bomb, and the Military . . . 99 . . Fizzled Fuses . . . 99 . . Testing Bloodhounds . . . 104 . . Los Alamos from Below . . . 107 . . Safecracker Meets Safecracker . . . 137 . . Uncle Sam Doesn't Need You! . . . 156 Part 4 - From Cornell to Caltech, With a Touch of Brazil . . . 165 . . The Dignified Professor . . . 165 . . Any Questions? . . . 175 . . I Want My Dollar! . . . 180 . . You Just Ask Them? . . . 184 . . Lucky Numbers . . . 192 . . O Americano, Outra Vez! . . . 199 . . Man of a Thousand Tongues . . . 220 . . Certainly, Mr. Big! . . . 221 . . An Offer You Must Refuse . . . 232 Part 5 - The World of One Physicist . . . 237 . . Would You Solve the Dirac Equation? . . . 237 . . The 7 Percent Solution . . . 247 . . Thirteen Times . . . 256 . . It Sounds Greek to Me! . . . 258 . . But Is It Art? . . . 260 . . Is Electricity Fire? . . . 279 . . Judging Books By Their Covers . . . 288 . . Alfred Noble's Other Mistake . . . 303 . . Bringing Culture to the Physicists . . . 313 . . Found Out in Paris . . . 318 . . Altered States . . . 330 . . Cargo Cult Science . . . 338 Index . . . 347