Surely you're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton

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Koren, Marina (October 24, 2018). "Lawrence Krauss and the Legacy of Harassment in Science: The theoretical physicist isn't the first celebrity scientist to be accused of sexual misconduct, but he is the first to face consequences". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on May 30, 2021 . Retrieved September 26, 2019.Feynman, Richard P. (1986). Rogers Commission Report, Volume 2 Appendix F – Personal Observations on Reliability of Shuttle. NASA. Other stories cover more serious material, including his work on the Manhattan Project (during which his first wife Arline Greenbaum died of tuberculosis) and his critique of the science education system in Brazil. The section "Monster Minds" describes his slightly nervous presentation of his graduate work on the Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory in front of Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Pauli, Henry Norris Russell, John von Neumann, and other major scientists of the time. Not everyone can get away with this all the time, so if you are able to make it into a position in life where you can, do. She turned to me and said, "Oh! You're one of the Nobel-Prize-winners. In what field did you do your work?"