The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius
Publisher: Faber & Faber Limited | English | PDF | 2009 | 324 pages | ISBN: 0571250076 | 2.63 MB
Publisher: Faber & Faber Limited | English | PDF | 2009 | 324 pages | ISBN: 0571250076 | 2.63 MB
Paul 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 compassionate portrait of his life and work.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.