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The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius (Hardback)
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|Short Description for The Strangest ManPaul Dirac was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in 20th-century science: quantum mechanics. This book celebrates Dirac's massive scientific achievement while drawing a compassionate portrait of his life and work. It shows a man who, while hopelessly socially inept, could manage to love and sustain close friendship.
Full description- Publisher: Faber and Faber
- Published: 22 January 2009
- Format: Hardback 560 pages
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- Categories: Biography: Science, Technology & Engineering | Quantum Physics (quantum Mechanics & Quantum Field Theory)
- ISBN 13: 9780571222780 ISBN 10: 0571222781
- Sales rank: 146,081
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Full description for The Strangest Man
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.
