Ask HN: what are your favorite biographies/autobiographies of a scientist?
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynmann" and "What Do You Care What People Think", both [obviously] by Richard Feynmann
"Uncle Tungsten" by Oliver Sacks, mostly about Sacks' early life
"The strangest man: The hidden life of Paul Dirac", by Graham Farmelo
"The man who loved only numbers: the story of Paul Erdos and the search for mathematical truth" by Paul Hoffman
"Subtle is the lord: the science and the life of Albert Einstein" by Abraham Pais
"Thesiger", by Michael Asher, providing you think of Wilfred Thesiger as a scientist and not just an explorer
Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton http://www.amazon.com/Never-Rest-Biography-Cambridge-Paperba...