“Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!”

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“Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!”

Summary

“Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!” is a literary work[1]. “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!” ranks in the top 3% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (848 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!” authored Richard Feynman[3].
  • “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!” authored Ralph Leighton[4].
  • “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!”'s instance of is recorded as literary work[5].
  • “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!” was published by W. W. Norton & Company[6].
  • “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!” was followed by “What Do You Care What Other People Think?”[7].
  • “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!”'s place of publication is recorded as United States[8].
  • “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!”'s language of work or name is recorded as English[9].
  • “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!”'s country of origin is recorded as United States[10].
  • “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!” was released on 1985[11].
  • “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!”'s main subject is Richard Feynman[12].
  • “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!”'s work available at URL is recorded as https://www.amazon.com/Surely-Youre-Joking-Mr-Feynman-ebook/dp/B003V1WXKU/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=[13].
  • “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!”'s title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': "“Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!”"}[14].
  • “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!”'s subtitle is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Adventures of a Curious Character'}[15].
  • “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!”'s form of creative work is recorded as memoir[16].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

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  • Release type: Prose[17]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 5db17c64-f71f-4f93-b1f5-7c71c61a91cd[18]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Authored works include Richard Feynman[3], a physicist[19], 1918–1988[20], of United States[21], awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics[22], specialised in quantum electrodynamics[23] and Ralph Leighton[4], a film producer[24], b. 1949[25], of United States[26]. “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!” was published by W. W. Norton & Company[6].

Publication

“Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!” was released on 1985[11]. “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!”'s place of publication is recorded as United States[8]. “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!”'s language of work or name is recorded as English[9].

Subject and Themes

“Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!”'s main subject is Richard Feynman[12].

Adaptations and Inspiration

“Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!” was followed by “What Do You Care What Other People Think?”[7].

Why It Matters

“Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!” ranks in the top 3% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (848 views/month).[2] “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!” has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!” is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [17] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [18] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [19] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [20] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [21] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [22] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [23] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [25] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [26] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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