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Tables of Contents for "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
9
2
Albert R. Hibbs
Vitals
11
4
Part 1 FROM FAR ROCKAWAY TO MIT
15
44
He Fixes Radios by Thinking!
15
10
String Beans
25
5
Who Stole the Door?
30
12
Latin or Italian?
42
3
Always Trying to Escape
45
8
The Chief Research Chemist of the Metaplast Corporation
53
6
Part 2 THE PRINCETON YEARS
59
40
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
59
7
Meeeeeeeeeee!
66
3
A Map of the Cat?
69
8
Monster Minds
77
4
Mixing Paints
81
3
A Different Box of Tools
84
4
Mindreaders
88
3
The Amateur Scientist
91
8
Part 3 FEYNMAN, THE BOMB, AND THE MILITARY
99
66
Fizzled Fuses
99
5
Testing Bloodhounds
104
3
Los Alamos from Below
107
30
Safecracker Meets Safecracker
137
19
Uncle Sam Doesn't Need You!
156
9
Part 4 FROM CORNELL TO CALTECH WITH A TOUCH OF BRAZIL
165
72
The Dignified Professor
165
10
Any Questions?
175
5
I Want My Dollar!
180
4
You Just Ask Them?
184
8
Lucky Numbers
192
7
O Americano, Outra Vez!
199
21
Man of a Thousand Tongues
220
1
Certainly, Mr. Big!
221
11
An Offer You Must Refuse
232
5
Part 5 THE WORLD OF ONE PHYSICIST
237
110
Would You Solve the Dirac Equation?
237
10
The 7 Percent Solution
247
9
Thirteen Times
256
2
It Sounds Greek to Me!
258
2
But Is It Art?
260
19
Is Electricity Fire?
279
9
Judging Books by Their Covers
288
15
Alfred Nobel's Other Mistake
303
10
Bringing Culture to the Physicists
313
5
Found Out in Paris
318
12
Altered States
330
8
Cargo Cult Science
338
9
Index
347