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The Strangest Man

By Graham Farmelo

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The Strangest Man

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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 details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
560
Release Date:
2009-12-24
Publication Date:
2009-12-24
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0571222862
ISBN13:
9780571222865
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
452 g
Height:
126 cm
Width:
199 cm
Thickness:
47 cm

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