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

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 'A monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.' Michael FraynThe Strangest Man is the Costa Biography Award-winning account of Paul Dirac, the famous physicist sometimes called the British Einstein. The Strangest Man is Graham Farmelo's Costa Biography Award-winning biography of Paul Dirac, the greatest British physicist since Isaac Newton - and one of the strangest geniuses of the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung 'A monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.' Michael FraynThe Strangest Man is the Costa Biography Award-winning account of Paul Dirac, the famous physicist sometimes called the British Einstein.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Graham Farmelo, Farmelo Graham
• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 24.12.2009
• EAN: 9780571222865
• ISBN: 978-0-571-22286-5
• Seiten: 539
• Abmessung: 126 mm x 197 mm x 35 mm
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Physik, Astronomie > Theoretische Physik; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Autism Spectrum Disorders, SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory, Autism & Asperger’s Syndrome, Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Autism & Asperger's Syndrome