The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius

ISBN-13: 9780571222865 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 576 str.

Graham Farmelo

Opis

Paul Dirac was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in the 20th century - quantum mechanics. In this book Graham Farmelo celebrates Dirac's massive scientific achievement, while drawing a compassionate portrait of his life and work.

O autorze

Graham Farmelo is a Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, and an Affiliate Professor of Physics at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. He edited the best-selling It Must be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science in 2002. His biography of Paul Dirac, The Strangest Man, won the 2009 Costa Biography Award and the 2010 Los Angeles Times Science Book Prize.