Richard Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

A glass of ice water. A rubber O-ring. The truth, served cold.
In 1986, Richard Feynman turned a NASA hearing into a physics classroom. With a simple clamp and a grin, he proved the Challenger disaster was no accident—just cold, hard science ignored. The nation watched a Nobel laureate become the people’s detective.
This is not the myth of “The Great Explainer.” This is Feynman unfiltered: the Far Rockaway kid who fixed radios at 10, cracked Manhattan Project safes for fun, and lost his first love to tuberculosis. From Los Alamos to QED’s Nobel Prize, Richard Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out traces the wild path of a mind that danced through the universe:
- The path integral revolution that rewrote quantum mechanics
- The Feynman diagrams every physicist doodles
- The bongo drums at Caltech parties and topless-bar sketches
- The Challenger O-ring demo that shamed NASA
- The misogyny and heartbreak behind the jokes
A biography that reads like a Feynman lecture—funny, fearless, and brutally honest. Perfect for fans of Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!, Genius, and The Making of the Atomic Bomb.