About this title: Paul Dirac was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in 20th-century science: quantum mechanics. One of the youngest theoreticians 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, ...
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780571222780ISBN:0571222781
Description: New. Paul Dirac was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in 20th-century science: quantum mechanics. This book celebrates Dirac's massive scientific achievement while drawing a compassionate portrait of his life and work. It shows a man w... read more
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"what i like, really, is Dirac. You can tell the author's passion for the subject-- and, indeed, he gives us his connection in the next to last chapter. However, found myself simultaneous wishing for both more & less in this biography. More re: the mathematics & theories; less re: the minutia of life & family. For a biography this long (& with such detailed notes)-- i'd really hoped for greater exploration of his work."
"Amazingly detailed and dense this was rather a change from the usual biographies I read. I saw the author at an interview at the Oxford literary festival and it sounded good."
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