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The strangest man : the hidden life of Paul Dirac, mystic of the atom / Graham Farmelo

By:

Farmelo, Graham

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York, NY : Basic Books, a Member of the Perseus Books Group , 2009.Description: 539 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780465018277

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DDC classification:

530.092 DIR

Summary: Paul Dirac was among the great scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of the discoverers of quantum mechanics, one of Einstein's most admired colleagues, Dirac was in 1933 the youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize in physics. Based on previously undiscovered archives, this biography reveals the many facets of Dirac's brilliantly original mind as well as the spectacularly exciting era of scientific discovery in which he lived.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	530.092 DIR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		016306

Published in Britain in 2009 by Faber and Faber. With a slightly different subtitle: The hidden life of Paul Dirac, quantum genius.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-508) and index.

Paul Dirac was among the great scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of the discoverers of quantum mechanics, one of Einstein's most admired colleagues, Dirac was in 1933 the youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize in physics. Based on previously undiscovered archives, this biography reveals the many facets of Dirac's brilliantly original mind as well as the spectacularly exciting era of scientific discovery in which he lived.

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