The Strangest Man : The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius

Εκδότης: FABER & FABER
Συγγραφέας: Graham Farmelo
Isbn: 9780571222865
Διαστάσεις: 198Χ126Χ34
Αριθμός σελίδων: 576
Ημερομηνία έκδοσης: 23/12/2009
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Περιγραφη

"'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 exci