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The Strangest Man (häftad, eng)
''A monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.'' Michael Frayn
The Strangest Man is the Costa Biogra...
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''A monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.'' Michael Frayn
The Strangest Man is the Costa Biography Award-winning account of Paul Dirac, the famous physicist sometimes called the British Einstein. He was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in twentieth-century science: quantum mechanicsThe 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. Through his greatest period of productivity, his postcards home contained only remarks about the weather.
Based on a previously undiscovered archive of family papers, Graham Farmelo celebrates Dirac''s massive scientific achievement while drawing a compassionate portrait of his life and workFarmelo shows a man who, while hopelessly socially inept, could manage to love and sustain close friendship.
The Strangest Man is an extraordinary and moving human story, as well as a study of one of the most exciting times in scientific history.
''A wonderful book . . Moving, sometimes comic, sometimes infinitely sad, and goes to the roots of what we mean by truth in science.'' Lord Waldegrave, Daily Telegraph
Format | Häftad |
Omfång | 576 sidor |
Språk | Engelska |
Förlag | Faber & Faber |
Utgivningsdatum | 2009-12-24 |
ISBN | 9780571222865 |
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- Häftad, 576, Engelska, Faber & Faber, 2009-12-24, 9780571222865
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