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Nature 436, 329-330 (21 July 2005) | doi:10.1038/436329a; Published online 20 July 2005

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What made Richard Feynman so much more than a Nobel prizewinning physicist?

BOOK REVIEWEDPerfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman

by Michelle Feynman
Basic Books: 2005. 512 pp. $26
Published by Allen Lane in the UK as Don't You Have Time to Think? £18.99

Richard Feynman was a physicist's physicist. To have been a principal builder of quantum electrodynamics (QED) — joining special relativity and quantum mechanics — was accomplishment enough.