The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom by Graham Farmelo is now available for free ePub download or online reading.
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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. First published August 4, 2009. Original format: Hardcover. Pages: 560. #the-strangest-man-ebook #the-strangest-man-epub #read #download
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