Bibliograph

The strangest man, the hidden life of Paul Dirac, mystic of the atom, Graham Farmelo

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The strangest man, the hidden life of Paul Dirac, mystic of the atom, Graham Farmelo

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The strangest man

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

426938310

Responsibility statement

Graham Farmelo

Sub title

the hidden life of Paul Dirac, mystic of the atom

Summary

Paul Dirac was among the great scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of the discoverers of quantum mechanics, one of Einstein's most admired colleagues, Dirac was in 1933 the youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize in physics. Based on previously undiscovered archives, this biography reveals the many facets of Dirac's brilliantly original mind as well as the spectacularly exciting era of scientific discovery in which he lived

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