“The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter — but it's a damn good book anyway.”

—  Richard Feynman

Review blurb for the first edition of The Quantum Universe http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521564573 (1987)

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American theoretical physicist 1918–1988

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