The Strangest Man

The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius

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Beschreibung

<p>'A monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.' Michael Frayn<br><br><i>The Strangest Man </i>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.<br><br>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.<br><br><i>The Strangest Man </i>is an extraordinary and moving human story, as well as a study of one of the most exciting times in scientific history.<br><br>'A wonderful book . . . Moving, sometimes comic, sometimes infinitely sad, and goes to the roots of what we mean by truth in science.' Lord Waldegrave, <i>Daily Telegraph</i></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780571222865

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

199 x 126 x 47 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Verlag / Hersteller

Faber & Faber