01333cam a2200253 4500 70060582 TxAuBib 20091203120000.0 090721s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2009925681 9780465018277 0465018270 UPZ UPZ IH9 BWX ORX WIQ TxAuBib Farmelo, Graham. The strangest man : the hidden life of Paul Dirac, mystic of the atom / Graham Farmelo. New York : Basic Books, 2009. 539 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. 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. 20091203. Dirac, P. A. M Paul Adrien Maurice 1902-1984. Quantum theory. Physicists Great Britain Biography.