Book ID: CBB001021272

The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom (2009)

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Farmelo, Graham (Author)


Basic Books
Publication date: 2009
Language: English


Publication Date: 2009
Physical Details: 539 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index

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Review Cassidy, David C. (2010) Review of "The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Kragh, Helge S.
Aczel, Amir D.
Bergia, Silvio
Bernardini, Carlo
Bokulich, Alisa
Bonolis, Luisa
Journals
Physics in Perspective
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
European Physical Journal H
Perspectives on Science
Publishers
Four Walls Eight Windows
GNT-Verlag
Oxford University Press
Princeton University Press
Società Italiana di Fisica
Springer-Verlag
Concepts
Quantum mechanics
Physics
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Biographies
Mathematical physics
Mathematics
People
Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Heisenberg, Werner
Einstein, Albert
Schrödinger, Erwin
Pauli, Wolfgang Ernst
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
Places
Northern Ireland
Germany
Italy
Institutions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
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