Book ID: CBB001021272

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

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Farmelo, Graham (Author)


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

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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.
David N. Schwartz
Blum, Alexander
Whitaker, Andrew
Vanpaemel, Geert H. W.
Stuewer, Roger H.
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Physics in Perspective
European Physical Journal H
American Journal of Physics
Publishers
Luigi Pellegrini Editore
Thomas Dunne Books
Springer-Verlag
Società Italiana di Fisica
Princeton University Press
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Quantum mechanics
Physics
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Biographies
Theoretical physics
Mathematics
People
Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice
Heisenberg, Werner
Fermi, Enrico
Einstein, Albert
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Uhlenbeck, George Eugene
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
19th century
Places
Italy
Germany
Northern Ireland
Institutions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
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