Graham Farmelo

Broschiertes Buch

The Strangest Man

The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom

Beschreibung

One of Einstein's most admired colleagues, Paul Dirac helped discover quantum mechanics, and his prediction of antimatter was one of the greatest triumphs in the history of physics. "The Strangest Man" uses previously undiscovered archives to reveal the many facets of Dirac's brilliantly original mind.

Autor

Graham Farmelo is the author of several books, including The Strangest Man , which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Farmelo is a Fellow at Churchill College at the University of Cambridge, an Affiliated Professor at Northeastern University, and is a regular visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He lives in London.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Basic Books
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 782g
• ISBN-13: 9780465022106
• ISBN-10: 0465022103
• Artikelnr.: 31804631