PROLOGUE	3
FAR ROCKAWAY	17
• Neither Country nor City A Birth and a Death • It's Worth It • At School • All Things Are Made of Atoms • A Century of Progress • Richard and Julian
MIT	51
• The Best Path • Socializing the Engineer The Newest Physics • Shop Men • Feynman of Course Is Jewish • Forces in Molecules • Is He Good Enough?
PRINCETON	93
• A Quaint Ceremonious Village • Folds and Rhythms • Forward or Backward? • The Reasonable Man • Mr. X and the Nature of Time • Least Action in Quantum Mechanics • The Aura • The White Plague • Preparing for War The Manhattan Proiect • Finishing Up
LOS ALAMOS	153
• The Man Comes In with His Briefcase • Chain Reactions • The Battleship and the Mosquito Boat • Diffusion • Computing by Brain • Computing by Machine • Fenced In • The Last Springtime • False Hopes • Nuclear Fear • I Will Bide My Time • We Scientists Are Clever
CORNELL	207
• The University at Peace • Phenomena Complex - Laws Simple • They All Seem Ashes Around a Mental Block • Shrinking the Infinities • Dyson • A HaIf-Assedly Thought-Out Pictorial Semi-Vision Thing • Schwinger's Glory • My Machines Came from Too Far Away • There Was Also Presented (by Feynman)... • Cross-Country with Freeman Dyson • Oppenheimer's Surrender • Dyson Graphs, Feynman Diagrams • Away to a Fabulous Land
CALTECH	281
• Faker from Copacabana • Alas, the Love of Women! • Onward with Physics • A Quantum Liquid • New Particles, New Language • Murray • In Search of Genius • Weak Interactions • Toward a Domestic Life • From QED to Genetics • Ghosts and Worms • Room at the Bottom • All His Knowledge • The Explorers and the Tourists • The Swedish Prize • Quarks and Partons • Teaching the Young • Do You Think You Can Last On Forever? • Surely You're Joking! • A Disaster of Technology
EPILOGUE	429
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	441
NOTES	445
A FEYNMAN BIBLIOGRAPHY	493
BIBLIOGRAPHY	499
INDEX	517
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS	532