The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life Of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius (1st edition) by Graham Farmelo. Faber & Faber, 2009

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“The strangest man” – this is how Paul Dirac was thought of by many of his friends and this how the great physicist’s biography, “The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius”, authored by Graham Farmelo, is entitled. Pathologically reticent and introverted, almost autistic, and at the same time a genius compared by his contemporaries to Newton and Einstein – this is how the author portrays him, leading us through Dirac’s life, from his unhappy family life, through the “golden 1920s” of 20th century physics, when quantum mechanics was born, to mature life and decline, when the applauded physicist retired from mainstream physics.

Mint condition hardcover.

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2009

ISBN:  978 0 571 22278 0

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