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

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


ISBN
9780571222865
Published
Released
01 / 11 / 2013
Binding
Paperback
Pages
576
Dimensions
125 x 200 x 40mm

Paul Dirac was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in 20th-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.
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