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Item Details
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STRANGEST MAN
THE HIDDEN LIFE OF PAUL DIRAC, QUANTUM GENIUS |
| By: |
Graham Farmelo |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£22.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0571222781 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571222780 |
| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
22 January, 2009 |
| Pages: |
544 |
| Description: |
Paul Dirac was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in 20th-century science: quantum mechanics. This book celebrates Dirac's massive scientific achievement while drawing a compassionate portrait of his life and work. It shows a man who, while hopelessly socially inept, could manage to love and sustain close friendship. |
| Synopsis: |
Paul Dirac was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in 20th-century science: quantum mechanics. One of the youngest theoreticians 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. |
| Reader Age: |
From 0 to 0 years |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Faber & Faber |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Costa Biography Award 2009 |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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