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The Strangest Man
- The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius
Engelsk Paperback
The Strangest Man
- The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius
Engelsk Paperback

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''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







Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
560
ISBN-13:
9780571222865
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0571222862
Udg. Dato:
24 dec 2009
Længde:
36mm
Bredde:
126mm
Højde:
197mm
Forlag:
Faber & Faber
Oplagsdato:
24 dec 2009
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