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 / Graham Farmelo.

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 biogr...

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Main Author: Farmelo, Graham
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, 2009.
Subjects:
Dirac, P. A. M. > (Paul Adrien Maurice), > 1902-1984.
Dirac, P. A. M. > (Paul Adrien Maurice), > 1902-1984
Physicists > Great Britain > Biography.
Quantum theory.
Physicists
Quantum theory
Great Britain
Biographies
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • Strangest man
  • Abbreviations in notes
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • List of plates
  • Acknowledgements
  • Index.

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