Moving, sometimes comic, sometimes infinitely sad, and goes to the roots of what we mean by truth in science. There was no change in Hart and Portsmouth. The Conservatives held Rushmoor and Havant. The Strangest Man is an extraordinary and moving human story, as well as a study of one of the most exciting times in scientific history. In Eastleigh, the Liberal Democrats, who have been running the council for 29 years, easily held control. Little-known beyond the scientific community. Farmelo shows a man who, while hopelessly socially inept, could manage to love and sustain close friendship. Graham Farmelo's 'The Strangest Man' looks at the extraordinary life of the theoretical physicist, Paul Dirac. Graham Farmelo is a Senior Research Fellow at the Science Museum, London, and Adjunct Professor of Physics at Northeastern University. Based 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 Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo, 9780465022106, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. Graham Farmelo The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius Main Edition, Kindle Edition by Graham Farmelo (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 762 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 12.31 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 94.95 4 Used from 13.64 4 New from 94. Through his greatest period of productivity, his postcards home contained only remarks about the weather. 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.

'A monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.' Michael Frayn The Strangest Man is the Costa Biography Award-winning account of Paul Dirac, the famous physicist sometimes called the British Einstein.