The book is well worth a read too. There are some great bits with John Von Neumann. On a similar note, Adventures of a Physicist by Luis Alvarez is also a grea

The book is well worth a read too. There are some great bits with John Von Neumann. On a similar note, Adventures of a Physicist by Luis Alvarez is also a great read. Among many other things, he and his son proposed the theory that the dinosaurs' extinction was caused by a meteor.