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The strangest man : the hidden life of Paul Dirac, mystic of the atom / Graham Farmelo.
Van Pelt Library QC16.D57 F37 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Farmelo, Graham.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dirac, P. A. M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984.
- Dirac, P. A. M.
- Quantum theory.
- Physicists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Physicists.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 539 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, 2009.
- Summary:
- 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 biography reveals the many facets of Dirac's brilliantly original mind as well as the spectacularly exciting era of scientific discovery in which he lived.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780465018277
- 0465018270
- OCLC:
- 426938310
- Publisher Number:
- 99934630451
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