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The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius

By Graham Farmelo

Book information

Publisher
Faber and Faber
Year
2009
ISBN
9780571222780, 0571222781
LCC
QC16.D57 F37 2009
Open Library ID
OL23225382M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1626008 bytes)
Pages
560\0
Library
Kolxo3
Time added
2012-03-17 06:00:00

Description

Paul Dirac was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in 20th-century science: quantum mechanics. One of the youngest theoreticians 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.

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