Graham Farmelo.
GRAHAM FARMELO
tHE STRANGEST MAN: THE HIDDEN LIFE OF PAUL DIRAC, QUANTUM GENIUS (2009)
Winner of the 2009 Costa Prize for Biography.
Chosen by Physics World as the Physics Book of the Year.
Paul Dirac (born 1902) was brought up in Bristol where his father was a French teacher. Dirac was an exceptionally gifted mathematician, who is credited with having laid the foundations of quantum theory.
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Graham Farmelo (born 1953) took his undergraduae degree in mathematical physics and his PhD in particle physics at the University of Liverpool. He then lectured on physics at the Open Univesity. He was a senior executive at the Science Museum in London from 1990 to 2003, where he worked on the delivery of the Wellcome Wing and the Dana Centre. He is now a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. In addition to this book he has written on science for the Scientific American, the New Scientist, the New York Times, and Nature. He was in 2012 awarded the Kelvin Prize and Medal by the Institute of Physics.
