Physicist Richard Feynman has a reputation as a bongo-playing, hard-partying,
flamboyant Nobel Prize laureate for his work on quantum electrodynamics theory,
but this tends to obscure the fact that he was a brilliant thinker who continued
making contributions to science until his death in 1988. He foresaw new
directions in science that have begun to produce practical applications only in
the last decade: nanotechnology, atomic-scale biology like the manipulation of
DNA, lasers to move individual atoms, and quantum engineering. In the 1960s,
Feynman entered the field of quantum gravity and created important tools and
techniques for scientists studying black holes and gravity waves. Author Krauss
(The Physics of Star Trek), an MIT-trained physicist, doesn't necessarily break
new ground in this biography, but Krauss excels in his ability, like Feynman
himself, to make complicated physics comprehensible. He incorporates Feynman's
lectures and quotes several of the late physicist's colleagues to aid him in
this process. This book is highly recommended for readers who want to get to
know one of the preeminent scientists of the 20th century.

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