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Farmelo, Graham

 
9780465022106: The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
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ISBN 10 : 0465022103 ISBN 13 : 9780465022106
Editeur : Basic Books, 2011

Synopsis

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize 

The definitive biography of Paul Dirac, the brilliant—and enigmatic—physicist whose foundational work in quantum mechanics revolutionized modern science. 

“This biography is a gift.… A thought-provoking meditation on human achievement, limitations, and the relations between the two.” —New York Times Book Review  

Paul Dirac was among the great scientific geniuses of the modern age. An admired colleague of Albert Einstein and one of the discoverers of quantum mechanics, the most revolutionary theory of the past century, Dirac also predicted the existence of antimatter—widely regarded as a triumph of twentieth-century physics—and was the youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize in physics.  

Like Dirac’s achievements, his personality is legendary. An extraordinarily reserved loner, relentlessly literal-minded and seemingly devoid of empathy, Dirac was nevertheless an intensely loyal family man, with tastes in the arts that ranged from Beethoven to Cher, from Rembrandt to Mickey Mouse.  

Based on previously undiscovered archives, The Strangest Man reveals the many facets of Dirac’s brilliantly original mind, while also charting one of the most spectacularly exciting eras in scientific history.  

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À propos de l'auteur

Graham Farmelo is the author of several books, including The Universe Speaks in Numbers, Churchill's Bomb, and Hawking. Farmelo is a Fellow at Churchill College at the University of Cambridge and a regular visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He lives in London.

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Éditeur
Basic Books
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0465022103
ISBN 13 
9780465022106
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
559
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