“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” is a great read.
Brilliant guy. Figured out the space shuttle disaster during a big conference meeting on it. Dunked part of an oring in a pitcher of ice water, pulled it out, bent it...it snapped. Right there in front of the emminent bigwigs.
Mic drop.
And then later in the book, he describes the moment when he realized that the whole thing was a set-up, that he had been manipulated into his role as the one who revealed the loss of flexibility at low temperatures of the fluoroelastomer o-ring material.
He said of the people who set him up in his role: "that was real engineering."