Moving, sometimes comic, sometimes infinitely sad, and goes to the roots of what we mean by truth in science. 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. Farmelo shows a man who, while hopelessly socially inept, could manage to love and sustain close friendship. Through his greatest period of productivity, his postcards home contained only remarks about the weather.īased 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 work. 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. He was also a most extraordinary man - an extreme introvert, and perhaps autistic. Dirac was one of the great founding fathers of modern physics, a theoretician who explored the sub-atomic world through the power of pure mathematics. He was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in twentieth-century science: quantum mechanics. Graham Farmelo has found the subject he was born to write about, and brought it off triumphantly. The Strangest Man is the Costa Biography Award-winning account of Paul Dirac, the famous physicist sometimes called the British Einstein. ‘A monumental achievement – one of the great scientific biographies.’ Michael Frayn Graham Farmelos The Strangest Man looks at the extraordinary life of the theoretical physicist, Paul Dirac.
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