Prologue. To the reader / by Ralph Leighton ; Foreword / by Freeman Dyson. From far Rockaway to MIT. The making of a scientist ; He fixes radios by thinking! ; String beans ; Who stole the door? ; Always trying to escape ; The chief research chemist of the Metaplast Corporation. The Princeton years. "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" ; Monster minds ; A different box of tools ; It's a simple as one, two, three..." ; Meeeeeeeee! ; Mind readers ; Mixing paints ; Latin or Italian! Arlene. "What do y_o_u_ care what other people think?" Feynman, the military, and the bomb. Fizzled fuses ; Los Alamos from below (spoken version on commemorative CD inside back cover) ; Safecracker meets safecracker ; Uncle Sam doesn't need you! From Cornell to Caltech with a touch of Brazil. The dignified professor ; Any questions? ; I want my dollar! ; You just ask them? ; O Americano, outra vez! ; Getting ahead ; Lucky numbers ; Certainly, Mr. Big! ; An offer you must refuse ; Man of a thousand tongues.
The world of one physicist. Would you solve the Dirac equation? ; Is electricity fire? ; Hotel city ; It sounds Greek to me! ; The 7 percent solution ; The amateur scientist ; Testing bloodhounds ; A map of the cat? ; But is it art? ; Judging books by their covers ; Who the hell is Herman? ; Feynman sexist pig! ; Thirteen times ; Alfred Nobel's other mistake ; Bringing culture to the physicists ; Altered states ; Found out in Paris ; I just shook his hand, can you believe it?
Mr Feynman goes to Washington: investigating the space shuttle Challenger disaster (all chapters in this section) Preliminaries ; Committing suicide ; The cold facts ; Check six! ; Gumshoes ; Fantastic figures ; An inflamed appendix ; The tenth recommendation ; Meet the press ; Afterthoughts ; Appendix F: Personal observations on the reliability of the shuttle.
Epilogue. Reflections ; The value of science ; Cargo cult science ; Finding Feynman, by Alan Alda.
The commemorative CD. About the CD Los Alamos from below ; Other Feynman CDs.
