The Strangest Man

Basierend auf bisher unentdeckten Papieren, zeichnet Graham Farmelo das mitfühlende Porträt von Paul Diracs Leben und wissenschaftlichen Leistungen. Farmelo zeigt einen Mann, dem es gelang, trotz hoffnungsloser sozialer Unfähigkeit, Liebe und Freundschaft aufrecht zu erhalten.
Ausgezeichnet mit dem Costa Best Biography Award 2009.

Informationen zum Autor Graham Farmelo is a By-Fellow at Churchill College! Cambridge! and an Adjunct Professor of Physics at Northeastern University! Boston! USA. He edited the bestselling It Must be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science in 2002. His biography of Paul Dirac! The Strangest Man! won the 2009 Costa Biography Award and the 2010 Los Angeles Times Science Book Prize. To find out more go to www.grahamfarmelo.com Klappentext A fascinating study of an extraordinary scientist. Paul Dirac was a leading pioneer in the field of quantum mechanics, and was 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. The Strangest Man is Graham Farmelo's Costa Biography Award-winning biography of Paul Dirac, the greatest British physicist since Isaac Newton - and one of the strangest geniuses of the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung 'A monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.' Michael FraynThe Strangest Man is the Costa Biography Award-winning account of Paul Dirac, the famous physicist sometimes called the British Einstein.

Préface
The Strangest Man is Graham Farmelo's Costa Biography Award-winning biography of Paul Dirac, the greatest British physicist since Isaac Newton - and one of the strangest geniuses of the twentieth century.

Auteur
Graham Farmelo is a By-Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, and an Adjunct Professor of Physics at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. He edited the bestselling It Must be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science in 2002. His biography of Paul Dirac, The Strangest Man, won the 2009 Costa Biography Award and the 2010 Los Angeles Times Science Book Prize. To find out more go to www.grahamfarmelo.com

Texte du rabat

A fascinating study of an extraordinary scientist. Paul Dirac was a leading pioneer in the field of quantum mechanics, and was 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.

Résumé
'A monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.' Michael FraynThe Strangest Man is the Costa Biography Award-winning account of Paul Dirac, the famous physicist sometimes called the British Einstein.