Introduction 11
Introduction to the Previous Edition 13
Vitals 15
Part 1 From Far Rockaway to MIT
He Fixes Radios by Thinking! 21
String Beans 32
Who Stole the Door? 37
Latin or Italian? 49
Always Trying to Escape 52
The Chief Research Chemist of the Metaplast Corporation 61
Part 2 The Princeton Years
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" 71
MEEEEEEEEEEE! 78
A Map of the Cat? 82
Monster Minds 91
Mixing Paints 96
A Different Box of Tools 99
Mindreaders 103
The Amateur Scientist 106
Part 3 Feynman, the Bomb, and the Military
Fizzled Fuses 117
Testing Bloodhounds 123
Los Alamos From Below 126
Safecracker Meets Safecracker 159
Uncle Sam Doesn't Need You! 180
Part 4 From Cornell to Caltech, With a Touch of Brazil
The Dignified Professor 191
Any Questions? 202
I Want My Dollar! 208
You Just Ask Them? 212
Lucky Numbers 221
O Americano, Outra Vez! 228
Man of a Thousand Tongues 250
Certainly, Mr. Big! 251
An Offer You Must Refuse 264
Part 5 The World of One Physicist
Would You Solve the Dirac Equation? 273
The 7 Percent Solution 284
Thirteen Times 294
It Sounds Greek to Me! 296
But is it Art? 298
Is Electricity Fire? 318
Judging Books by their Covers 327
Alfred Nobel's Other Mistake 343
Bringing Culture to the Physicists 354
Found Out in Paris 360
Altered States 373
Cargo Cult Science 382
Index 393