The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom

The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom

by Graham Farmelo
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom

The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom

by Graham Farmelo

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Overview

Paul Dirac was among the greatest scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of Einstein's most admired colleagues, he helped discover quantum mechanics, and his prediction of antimatter was one of the greatest triumphs in the history of physics. In 1933 he became the youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. Dirac's personality, like his achievements, is legendary. The Strangest Man uses previously undiscovered archives to reveal the many facets of Dirac's brilliantly original mind.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780465019922
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 08/25/2009
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
Pages: 560
Sales rank: 861,041
File size: 2 MB
Age Range: 13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Graham Farmelo is the author of several books, including The Strangest Man, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Farmelo is a Fellow at Churchill College at the University of Cambridge, an Affiliated Professor at Northeastern University, and is a regular visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He lives in London.

Table of Contents

Prologue 1

The Strangest Man 7

Abbreviations in Notes 439

Notes 441

Bibliography 495

List of Plates 507

Acknowledgements 509

Index 515

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