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Paul Dirac was among the great scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of the discoverers of quantum mechanics, the most revolutionary theory of the past century, his contributions had a unique insight, eloquence, clarity, and mathematical power. His prediction of antimatter was one of the greatest triumphs in the history of physics. One of Einstein’s most admired colle...more

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Published August 25th 2009 by Basic Books (first published January 22nd 2009)

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Mar 07, 2010 Kemper rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Paul Dirac won a Nobel prize for physics. He was one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. Among other things, he predicted the existence of antimatter, discovered the magnetic monopole solutions and his work was used as some of the basis for string theory.

What does all that mean? Other than the fact that Dirac was one smart motherf----r, I couldn’t tell you. Because it’s my curse to be fascinated by theoretical physics despite being so math challenged that I could ba...more Paul Dirac won a Nobel prize for physics. He was one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. Among other things, he predicted the existence of antimatter, discovered the magnetic monopole solutions and his work was used as some of the basis for string theory.

What does all that mean? Other than the fact that Dirac was one smart motherf----r, I couldn’t tell you. Because it’s my curse to be fascinated by theoretical physics despite being so math challenged that I could barely scrape out a passing grade in college algebra. Yet I’m intrigued by black holes, string theory, the big bang, the theory of relativity, etc. So when I read a book like this, even though the author does a pretty good job of trying to put Dirac’s work into layman’s terms, I can usually still feel the breeze in my hair as the ideas shoot right over my head.

I can tell you that Albert Einstein once admitted to a colleague that he was having problems following some of Dirac’s equations, and that Stephen Hawking called him the greatest English physicist since Isaac Newton. A text book that Dirac wrote in 1930 on quantum mechanics is still in print and used today. So even a dunce like me can tell that Dirac must have been something special.

He was also a grade-A nerdlinger. Even the other physicists considered him an odd duck. Aloof, quiet and extremely averse to seeking attention, his peers made a game out of trying to get more than one-word answers out of him and usually failed. His idea of a good time was taking a long walk. When a layman asked him what caused the big bang, Dirac replied that it was a meaningless question and refused to speak any further on the subject. He wasn’t exactly a social butterfly.

The author believes that Dirac may have been somewhat autistic, and I guess it’s possible, but I’m a little leery of this new trend to classify every genius as autistic lately. But Dirac was such a private person that there was little personal insight for the author to draw on other than some interviews he did late in his life. So even after reading an entire book about him, I don’t feel like I know any more about him that I could have gotten from Wikipedia.

If you’ve got a flair for theoretical physics or are a huge fan of stories about eccentric geniuses, then there’s a lot to like here, but it’s not a casual read.(less)

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Feb 10, 2013 Ugh rated it 4 of 5 stars

I've read very few biographies. I could swear I've now read three, but the only other one I can think of is the 'autobiography' of the former Arsenal midfielder Paul Merson, which I read when I was about twelve. Nevertheless, even with that lack of experience I am confident in saying that The Strangest Man is an excellent one. Dirac was not the most forthcoming individual, and yet Farmelo manages to paint a convincing portrait that seems fully-fleshed, which makes you think of Dirac as a friend,...more

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Jul 26, 2012 greg rated it 3 of 5 stars

The Strangest Man: the hidden life of Paul Dirac, mystic of the atom Graham Farmelo -- a recent biography of one of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics, brilliant mathematical thinker and borderline-autistic recluse. He was there, and part of the conversation, at the time when Bohr and Einstein debated the philosophy of quantum mechanics and the math that underlies it - a case study in Davies book [Why Beliefs Matter]. Dirac was absolutely driven by belief. He had internalized a world view...more

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Jan 04, 2012 Srirampemmaraju added it

I loved to read about Dirac's eccentric personality and how it influenced his way of doing science. Dirac abhorred collaborations and could only talk about his work in highly structured settings (e.g., lectures). His approach to doing science was diametrically opposite to that of Rutherford and Bohr whose legacy also included influencing a whole generation of scientists through their brilliance, personality, and the institutions they built. The book mentions a joke that physicists of that time s...more

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Dec 24, 2010 Patrick rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Paul Dirac (1902–1984) shared the Nobel Prize for physics with Erwin Schrödinger in 1933, but whereas physicists regard Dirac as one of the giants of the 20th century, he isn't as well known outside the profession. This may be due to the lack of humorous quips attributed to Dirac, as compared with an Einstein or a Feynman. If he spoke at all, it was with one-word answers that made Calvin Coolidge look loquacious . Dirac adhered to Keats's admonition that Beauty is truth, truth beau...more

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Nov 20, 2010 Roger Wood rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Physicists

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A true master of the biography format, Graham Farmelo confirms his status as one of the most gifted narrators of in the world of science. A scientist and author, Farmelo is rare in his ability to communicate profound scientific research, while capturing the essence of the subject's life journey.

The book leaves the reader with a complete, clear, compelling picture of Paul Dirac's contribution to science. The depth of Dirac's contribution to the body of knowledge in physics is remarkable. A celeb...more

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Apr 14, 2010 Francis Kayiwa rated it 5 of 5 stars

Graham Farmelo writes a book on Paul Dirac who is arguably the greatest Mathematician? Physicist? the 20th century produced. In the book we learn about a boy who learned how to speak German (which he gave up speaking because of WWII), French (which he gave up speaking because of his upbringing) and Russian. He is also famous for lengthy and uncomfortable silences despite his fluency in multiple languages. We get to know how this boy went on to explain his insightful perspective on the universe w...more

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Jan 17, 2010 David rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book isn’t about Michael Jackson! Instead, it is a biography of Paul Dirac, a British born physicist, who didn’t seem overly strange to me. He may not have been socially normal as far as “normal” is depicted in society. Farmelo ties to define Dirac’s personality from childhood abuse when his father made him talk French during their dinner conversations. Farmelo, a physicist, is good in reporting on Dirac’s life, and about his contributions to atomic theory (which weren’t as sexy as Einstei...more

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Jan 04, 2010 Terry rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Paul Dirac is part of a cadre of theoreticians for whom I have immense respect and admiration despite knowing nothing of the meat of their work. I can follow a Feynmann diagram but the Dirac is almost always beyond me. Dirac's mental faculties exceed mine probably by orders of magnitude and his ability to wield mathematics is vast and humbling.

Graham Farmelo had quite a task for himself and he some-what met it. I found Paul Dirac fascinating from the start and generally love even mediocre scienc...more

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The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
By Graham Farmelo (Basic Books)
The late 20th century physicist Paul Dirac predicted the existence of antimatter, founded the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and literally wrote the textbook on quantum mechanics, but it was his bizarre and taciturn behavior that made him most memorable to his peers—and most vexing to future scholars. Unlike other titans of p...more

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Jan 09, 2012 Satam Choudhury rated it 5 of 5 stars

Naipaul once said that writers should write sympathetically. Having read a couple of biographies, it occurs to that modern biographers have taken this injunction rather seriously. Hence, the absurdly flattering accounts of some of the most eminent men.

Farmelo's book is a noted exception. I would not call it 'pathbreaking', given my intellectual limitations. But this is a fascinating account of one of the most enigmatic geniuses of our time. And written with caution. Nevertheless, Dirac would con...more

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Sep 16, 2011 Tyler Grant rated it 3 of 5 stars

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I still haven't finished this book and it may never happen. I like books about physicists because they talk about some of the incredible ideas of physics in a less-technical way and tell how some of the most counterintuitive ideas were discovered. This book is well-written and easy to read, but it's probably too long. Dirac was a strange duck, as are many physicists. He was involved in discoveries early in the development of quantum mechanics and all the utterly strange discoveries that were bei...more

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Apr 11, 2010 Catherine Kealhofer rated it 4 of 5 stars

A charming and sympathetic portrait of one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century. I found many threads of this book interesting: the transformation of the world during Dirac's time (particularly the second world war and the beginning of the cold war seen from the perspective of England), Dirac's education and his phenomenal contributions to physics (he ultimately had a more sophisticated and rigorous math and--surprising to me-- engineering than most of his fellow theoretical ph...more

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Dec 23, 2011 Warnie B. rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I enjoyed this for the most part--I didn't know a whole lot about Paul Dirac before I read (or rather, listened to) this biography, and I definitely feel I know a little more about him now. But only a little, despite the audiobook being almost 20 hours long. Somehow, for all that this is a book about Dirac, it seems that I got a much better feel for the peripheral characters in his story--his wife Manci, his BFF Pyotr Kapitza, his mother Flo--than I did for the man himself. I think that part of...more

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Apr 02, 2013 Eddy Allen rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Apr 23, 2011 Bryan Higgs rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: biography, physics-cosmology, science, history, history-science, favorites

I enjoyed this book even more than I had expected to. Some background: I studied Physics up to the Ph.D. level (experimental elementary particle physics), and then left the field to pursue a career in computing. However, I retained an interest in Physics which became reactivated when I retired. As a physics student, my hero was Richard Feynman (I highly recommend "Genius", James Gleick's biography of Feynman) who was a very colorful character indeed.

However, being British, I was naturally incli...more I enjoyed this book even more than I had expected to. Some background: I studied Physics up to the Ph.D. level (experimental elementary particle physics), and then left the field to pursue a career in computing. However, I retained an interest in Physics which became reactivated when I retired. As a physics student, my hero was Richard Feynman (I highly recommend "Genius", James Gleick's biography of Feynman) who was a very colorful character indeed.

However, being British, I was naturally inclined towards British physicists, and there was no more esteemed British theoretical physicist than Paul Dirac, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 (together with Erwin Schroedinger), and at the time was the youngest person ever to have won that prize. I still have a copy of Dirac's classic "Principles of Quantum Mechanics" on my bookshelf.

But I knew that Paul Dirac was a "strange bird", and that his father was a control freak who seriously damaged his son's mental state during his formative years. However, I didn't really know the details. This book furnishes those details.

Not only does the book explain much of Dirac's history and mental and emotional makeup (as far as one can with a man who was as seriously laconic as Dirac was), but it also describes in some detail much of the historical activities that were on-going during his life -- the rise of Hitler, Stalin, the Soviet Union, McCarthyism and the Manhattan project in the US, and more. The historical perspective is particularly rich and detailed. While the science is mentioned, it is by no means necessary to have a scientific understanding of what Dirac (and others) did to become such major figures. I don't believe there is a single equation in the book.

The author does an exceptional job of trying to capture what Dirac was all about -- a very difficult thing to accomplish given Dirac's lack of responsiveness. The author has obviously spent a lot of time researching the man, and has talked to seemingly all the major characters who were still alive during the time of his research. The size of the notes section, the size of the references section, and the size of the index show how much!

Some have taken issue with the author's discussion of whether Dirac was autistic or not (as has been suggested of other major scientific figures such as Newton and Einstein). I felt that the chapter that discusses that possibility was presented in a very fair way: evidence was discussed, and alternative ideas were included. Any true scientist (the author is a trained physicist) would do it that way, and would clearly state what his/her beliefs were, as opposed to other hypotheses. That's really what science is all about.

I only have some minor criticisms of the book, which are merely to do with its production and organization:

1) The book has no real Table of Contents -- there is one, but it's basically useless. It would be much better if one could use the TOC to find a particular chapter by name.
2) Each chapter has a 'name' (mostly related to a period of time), but the chapter title page does not specify a name, merely a chapter number. This makes things harder to find, especially given the lack of a true TOC.
3) There are voluminous notes on every page, and I found myself keeping on finger in the Notes section (towards the end of the book), in order to read whether a note was interesting or otherwise. Unfortunately, most notes consisted of short references to sources: books, papers, people, some of which referred to the References section, while other notes were more interesting and added useful information to what was being discussed on the page. A much better organization would have been to place the notes relating merely to sources in the notes section at the end of the book, while placing the other notes containing additional, interesting and relevant information as footnotes on the same page. That way, I could have avoided keeping that extra finger in the notes section, and avoided wasting time looking at abstract source references I didn't care about.

All in all, however, this is an extremely good book. I recommend it highly!(less)

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Mar 19, 2010 n* Dalal rated it 3 of 5 stars

A pretty standard biography of an amazing person. It goes chronologically from his birth to his death, it doesn't meander, and it's very straightforward.

I would suggest it to anyone who has an interest in what happens to science when its linked to defense, anyone who has an interest in modern physics, cosmology and quantum mechanics. Paul Dirac is surely one of the founders and true geniuses of the field.

But if you're looking for interesting writing, a more postmodern, creative style of storyte...more A pretty standard biography of an amazing person. It goes chronologically from his birth to his death, it doesn't meander, and it's very straightforward.

I would suggest it to anyone who has an interest in what happens to science when its linked to defense, anyone who has an interest in modern physics, cosmology and quantum mechanics. Paul Dirac is surely one of the founders and true geniuses of the field.

But if you're looking for interesting writing, a more postmodern, creative style of storytelling-- look elsewhere, my friend. Look elsewhere.

At the end, Farmelo spends some time considering whether or not Paul Dirac was autistic, at some level. I feel like this sort of post-pathologising is confusing at worst and mere speculation at best. I wonder why biographers are so drawn to this sort of enquiry. The only "symptoms" to diagnose Dirac by were a rather extreme shortness of words, a fabulous brain for mathematics, and a seeming lack of emotional connection. Oh, except with his wife. And his friends. And his baby daughters.

He never visited shrinks, there were no psychological notes (or even doctor's notes) for Farmelo to pore over with a few decades' worth of new diagnoses. Just stories about how distant he could be. About how distant his father was.

Well, clearly, since autism runs mostly in men, since there may be some hereditary factor to it. Since Paul and his father were both rather emotionally distant, and since Paul spoke so little. Of course, since Paul was so very good at math...it follows that he was probably autistic.

I admit, there is a case for it. I just wonder if there's any use pursuing cases like this. Can I not just appreciate Paul Dirac for the brilliant, eccentric, wonderful man he was, without wondering if there was something essentially wrong with him? Without dragging him down into our petty world of pathological bickering.

Though, I should probably admit-- I did end up falling in love with Paul, by the end of the book, just a little bit. I mean, when asked what he thought the fledgling republic of India should consider he said, "A unified language...peace with Pakistan. The metric system." When his girlfriend sent him a letter asking "Whom could I love but you?" he answered with "You should not expect me to answer this question. You would say I was cruel if I tried." He loved Mickey Mouse, Cher, and beautiful equations. He had no time for small talk-- someone at a dinner tried to open a conversation saying "Have you been to the cinema this week?" because Dirac's love of movies was well-known.
Dirac waited a moment and answered, "Why do you want to know?"

He refused offers of honorary degrees, because he believed in awards being given for merit, not fame. He refused a knighthood, because he didn't want to be addressed as Sir Paul, but only Mr. Dirac.

Isn't he wonderful?(less)

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Dec 28, 2009 Andy rated it 2 of 5 stars

Even for a physicist, Paul Dirac was an exceedingly eccentric man. Socially aloof, he didn’t even get along with his fellow physicists, men who spoke Dirac’s own language. Unlike the other heavyweights of theoretical physics—his colleagues included Heisenberg, Pauli, Bohr, and Schrodinger—Dirac eschewed publicity, preferring to work in isolation, publishing infrequently. After making a few important contributions to quantum physics and then winning the 1933 Nobel Prize, Dirac dropped out of the...more

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Jul 26, 2012 Daniel Zaharevitz rated it 4 of 5 stars

Of all the biographies of Dirac that I have read, this one is easily the most detailed regarding the personal life of Dirac. It gives a detailed picture of what it was like to interact with Dirac as a friend, husband, father instead of as a scientist. It is very light on the science, but that is fine as other biographies (as well as histories of quantum mechanics and Dirac's own writings) cover the science extremely well. Those other sources of course put most of their focus on the brillant succ...more

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Nov 09, 2010 Leilani rated it 4 of 5 stars

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I hadn't heard of Paul Dirac before reading this biography, but found it really interesting anyway. The first part follows Dirac as he helps shape the beginnings of quantum mechanics during the 1920s and heads toward a Nobel prize. Farmelo does a good job (so far as I can tell) at explaining the most basic concepts behind Dirac's theories for laypeople, and it's fascinating to read about all the famous names interacting with each other - among others Heisenberg, Schrodinger, Bohr, and a mutual a...more

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Sep 27, 2009 Snail in Danger (Sid) Nicolaides marked it as maybe-read-sometime

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Seems to be a good biography. I picked this up because (this is slightly embarrassing) hearing a little about Paul Dirac in The Ghost Brigades made me curious. It's interesting to learn that Dirac was Swiss rather than French, and that his childhood was not a terribly happy one.

However, the pace is a bit slow. Which is why I am setting this aside. I've been taking a new approach to books lately. Namely: fiction or non-fiction, if I'm reading it for leisure/curiosity/entertainment purposes, it's...more

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Jul 02, 2011 Tom rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I think the title is largely composed to sell books. I haven't been convinced of any strangeness to deserve the superlative. While his ideas of theoretical physics can come across as strange, compared to those of Heisenberg, Schrodinger, etc. - how can they be the strangest? Apparently he was socially inept and awkward as parties, but so far it doesn't add up to "strangest" for me. The book is much more a life story than a quantum physics primer, of course, but I think it helps clear some things...more

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Apr 06, 2012 Mahendra rated it 5 of 5 stars

In a recent poll Dirac was voted the second greatest physicist Britain has ever produced, second only to Newton. Dirac is an interesting and a strange man, but his involvement in Quantum Mechanics makes his life very intriguing. A man of few words he was able to stand tall with the giants of physics (Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrodinger, Born, etc.). He discovered the existence of antimatter and was able to incorporate Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity with that of quantum theory to pro...more

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Sep 21, 2012 Andrew rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Paul Dirac had an amazing mind and an unusual personality. Did one contribute to the other or were the characteristics codependent? Underlying Dirac's story is that question. For those of us to cannot fathom the subatomic world or really comprehend particle physics, his book is very accessible. What jumps out at the reader is how Dirac could figure out so much about quantum physics through pure mathematics and the absence of experimental capacity to prove his theories.

What is also amazing is th...more

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Sep 22, 2010 John rated it 5 of 5 stars

An absorbing biography of a man who greatly influenced me in my youth. I remember reading Dirac's "The Principles of Quantum Mechanics" as an undergraduate, soon after Wittgenstein's "Tractatus" and realising that Dirac was the true master of the style Wittgenstein was striving for, and had a lot more to say. Later, learning how the Dirac equation for the electron worked was one of the greate intellectual revelations of my life. This book illuminates the life of someone who seemed rather superhu...more

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Feb 25, 2010 Jennifer rated it 5 of 5 stars

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It wasn't until very near the end of this book that I finally identified the niggling something that had seemed strange throughout it. Most biographies are driven by emotional narrative. To put it in Myers-Briggs terms, they're F books. This book is clearly at T. But what could be more appropriate for the biography of a man so emotionally reserved that many who knew him later speculated that he might have been autistic?

Unverified psychological speculation aside, The Strangest Man is the extremel...more

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Jul 19, 2011 Chris LaHatte rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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This was a fascinating account of the life of Paul Dirac. The physics are clear and well explained, and Farmelo's diagnosis of autism as the source for the strange behaviour rings true. This is worth reading for scientists, both physicists, and pschologists, but also for any one who has an interest in the basic makeup and structure of the universe. Dirac was in the end a dedicated and hardworking scientist, who was helped to overcome his shyness and odd behaviour by a very different wife, in man...more

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Aug 31, 2010 Phil Mullen rated it 4 of 5 stars

As always, I try to learn some physics by reading about the lives of eminent physicists.

I'm beginning to get a sense of how, among the early band of quantum physicists, discoveries span off one another; & also of how Dirac, like Einstein, gave his mature yrs. to a (vain) attempt to try to do what the majority of physicists said could never be done.

And, again as always, I benefit from learning what I did NOT know in grad school -- viz., that VERY smart humans may be as incapable of solving hu...more

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Jul 26, 2010 Bud Norton added it

Only biog. of Dirac that I know of. Well worth reading if at all interested in one of the giants of quantum physics (or physics period). Unaware of his rather miserable childhood, his probable autism (although "highly functional"), his engineering/geometry background, or his lifelong friendship with Peter Kapitsa. I had the privilege of seeing him give a talk on the state of quantum mechanics @ Rice University in the 1970s. I was very impressed with his clear, concise delivery. Apparently it too...more

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Dec 16, 2010 Solleone rated it 4 of 5 stars

The title?
Bohr's opinion about Dirac.
Why?
Just an example, a Dirac has been defined, by his colleagues in Cambridge, as the smallest number of words that can be told by a person in a day.
How much is a Dirac?
Zero, if you neglect to count yes and no.

Only one time a drop run down his cheek, at Einstein death.
The author even hypothesizes that Dirac could be somehow autistic.

Anti-matter was his greatest prediction, while his textbook The Principles of Quantum Mechanics had been the quantum mechanics'...more

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