The strangest man

The strangest person is the Costa Book Prize-winning account of Paul Dirac, the famous physicist who is sometimes referred to as the English Einstein. He was one of the leading pioneers of the great revolution in the science of the twentieth century: quantum mechanics. And he was the youngest theorist to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933. Dirac was strangely taciturn, took everything literally and his inhibited way of communicating and his lack of empathy became legendary. During his most successful creative period, his postcards to his parents' house consisted only of reports about the weather. Based on previously undiscovered documents from the family archives, Graham Farmelo combines a knowledgeable account of his scientific achievements with a sensitive portrait of the individual Paul Dirac. He shows a mens.