"Graham Farmelo has managed to haul Dirac onstage in an affectionate and meticulously researched book that illuminates both his era and his science." Los Angeles Times "The unsung hero of twentieth-century physics is at last brilliantly illuminated." -Ian McEwan Based on previously undiscovered archives, The Strangest Man reveals the many facets of Dirac's brilliantly original mind, while also charting one of the most spectacularly exciting ears in scientific history. An extraordinarily reserved loner, relentlessly literal-minded and seemingly devoid of empathy, Dirac was nevertheless an intensely loyal family man, with tastes in the arts that ranged from Beethoven to Cher, from Rembrandt to Mickey Mouse. Like Dirac's achievements, his personality is legendary.
An admired colleague of Albert Einstein and one of the discoverers of quantum mechanics, the most revolutionary theory of the past century physics-and was the youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. Paul Dirac was among the greatest scientific geniuses of the modern age.
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