The Strangest Man - The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius (Paperback, Main)

'A monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.' Michael Frayn The 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

General

Imprint:	Faber and Faber
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2009
Authors:	Graham Farmelo
Dimensions:	198 x 127 x 35mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	539
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-0-571-22286-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Science, technology & engineering Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > General Books > Biography > Science, technology & engineering
LSN:	0-571-22286-2
Barcode:	9780571222865

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