The Strangest Man : The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius Paperback / softback
by Graham Farmelo
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'A monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.' Michael FraynThe Strangest Man is the Costa Biography Award-winning account of Paul Dirac, the famous physicist sometimes called the British Einstein.
He was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in twentieth-century science: quantum mechanics.
The youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize for Physics, he was also pathologically reticent, strangely literal-minded and legendarily unable to communicate or empathize.
Through his greatest period of productivity, his postcards home contained only remarks about the weather. Based on a previously undiscovered archive of family papers, Graham Farmelo celebrates Dirac's massive scientific achievement while drawing a compassionate portrait of his life and work.
Farmelo shows a man who, while hopelessly socially inept, could manage to love and sustain close friendship. The Strangest Man is an extraordinary and moving human story, as well as a study of one of the most exciting times in scientific history. 'A wonderful book . . . Moving, sometimes comic, sometimes infinitely sad, and goes to the roots of what we mean by truth in science.' Lord Waldegrave, Daily Telegraph
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:576 pages
- Publisher:Faber & Faber
- Publication Date:24/12/2009
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- ISBN:9780571222865
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:576 pages
- Publisher:Faber & Faber
- Publication Date:24/12/2009
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- ISBN:9780571222865