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Right -- for example, the "Joking" and other stories are written by Ralph Leighton[1]. Interestingly, Ralph is son of Robert Leighton[2], the caltech physicist
by cduzz 2y ago
Right -- for example, the "Joking" and other stories are written by Ralph Leighton[1].
Interestingly, Ralph is son of Robert Leighton[2], the caltech physicist who was a contemporary (and peer) of Feynman's and part of the team that transcribed and edited "the Feynman Lectures".
So that's 2 (or 3) of the big books that feynman's said to have written that he was only partially involved with.
And lastly, if my dad were a physicist and I went out of my way to write a book about another physicist, and I went out of my way to describe that other physicist as the best and most coolist physicist ever, there's probably an interesting backstory that's not in the book.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Leighton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Leighton
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_B._Leighton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_B._Leighton