Henry Carter Hull

A graphic novel overview of the life and accomplishments of Nobel-winning quantum physicist, adventurer, and musician Richard Feynman.

A biography of Nobel Prize winning physicist Albert Einstein that explores the scientist's private life as revealed in personal archives kept secret until the last decade.

Biography of physicist Richard Feynman from his childhood to genius of modern physics. Also reveals the darker side of the man.

A treasury of short writings by twentieth-century American physicist Richard Feynman, including interviews, speeches, lectures, and printed articles, in which he shares details of his private life, his work on the atomic bomb, and his conclusions on the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.

"PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Richard P. Feynman's Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! and NOT the original book. Preview: Richard Feynman's Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character (1985) is an unconventional memoir by a decidedly unconventional theoretical physicist. Feynman was a brilliant and eccentric thinker who was present for some of the key scientific developments of the twentieth century. Inside this companion...

Gordon Gould woke up one night in his Bronx New York apartment opened a laboratory notebook and wrote: Some rough calculations on the feasibility of a LASER: Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation." That was November 1957 and the 37-year-old graduate student had coined the name for a world-changing invention. Before he stopped he had written the first description of a working laser and how it could be used. What he didn't know was...

J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to his central role in the Cold War. --From publisher's description....