![]() Farmelo shows a man who, while hopelessly socially inept, could manage to love and sustain close friendship. ![]() Through his greatest period of productivity, his postcards home contained only remarks about the weather.īased on a previously undiscovered archive of family papers, Graham Farmelo celebrates Dirac's massive scientific achievement while drawing a compassionate portrait of his life and work. The youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize for Physics, he was also pathologically reticent, strangely literal-minded and legendarily unable to communicate or empathize. He was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in twentieth-century science: quantum mechanics. The Strangest Man is the Costa Biography Award-winning account of Paul Dirac, the famous physicist sometimes called the British Einstein. 'A monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.' Michael Frayn ![]()
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