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Strangest man: the hidden life of Paul Dirac, quantum genius
Paul Dirac was among the great scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of the discoverers of quantum mechanics, the most revolutionary theory of the past century, his contributions had a unique insight, eloquence, clarity, and mathematical power. His prediction of antimatter was one of the greate...
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Faber and Faber
2009
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author | Farmelo, Graham |
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description | Paul Dirac was among the great scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of the discoverers of quantum mechanics, the most revolutionary theory of the past century, his contributions had a unique insight, eloquence, clarity, and mathematical power. His prediction of antimatter was one of the greatest triumphs in the history of physics. One of Einstein's most admired colleagues, Dirac was in 1933 the youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize in physics. Dirac's personality is legendary. He was an extraordinarily reserved loner, relentlessly literal-minded and appeared to have no empath |
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spelling | cern-11707232021-04-22T01:37:02Zhttp://cds.cern.ch/record/1170723engFarmelo, GrahamStrangest man: the hidden life of Paul Dirac, quantum geniusBiography, Geography, HistoryPaul Dirac was among the great scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of the discoverers of quantum mechanics, the most revolutionary theory of the past century, his contributions had a unique insight, eloquence, clarity, and mathematical power. His prediction of antimatter was one of the greatest triumphs in the history of physics. One of Einstein's most admired colleagues, Dirac was in 1933 the youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize in physics. Dirac's personality is legendary. He was an extraordinarily reserved loner, relentlessly literal-minded and appeared to have no empathFaber and Faberoai:cds.cern.ch:11707232009 |
spellingShingle | Biography, Geography, History Farmelo, Graham Strangest man: the hidden life of Paul Dirac, quantum genius |
title | Strangest man: the hidden life of Paul Dirac, quantum genius |
title_full | Strangest man: the hidden life of Paul Dirac, quantum genius |
title_fullStr | Strangest man: the hidden life of Paul Dirac, quantum genius |
title_full_unstemmed | Strangest man: the hidden life of Paul Dirac, quantum genius |
title_short | Strangest man: the hidden life of Paul Dirac, quantum genius |
title_sort | strangest man: the hidden life of paul dirac, quantum genius |
topic | Biography, Geography, History |
url | http://cds.cern.ch/record/1170723 |
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