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  The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius (Paperback) By (author) Graham Farmelo

  

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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. Based on an archive of family papers, this title celebrates Dirac's massive scientific achievement while drawing a portrait of his life and work.
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  • Publisher: Faber and Faber
  • Published: 24 December 2009
  • Format: Paperback 560 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: Science, Technology & Engineering | Physics
  • ISBN 13: 9780571222865 ISBN 10: 0571222862
  • Sales rank: 15,587

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• 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.