Der Seltsamste Mensch : Das Verborgene Leben Des Quantengenies Paul Dirac

from Eyejaybee

An absorbing biography of Paul Dirac, feted as Britain's finest physicist of the twentieth century. Dirac represented the epitome of the stereotypical dysfunctional scientist, generally only offering monosyllabic replies to any questions, and seldom if ever initiating a conversation himself. Ther...

from VisibleGhost

Dirac was as taciturn as a person could get and not be a mute. His colleagues invented a term called 'a dirac' for the shortest answer possible to a question. He didn't keep a diary and his letters to his parents (postcards) usually contained twenty words or less. Stories abound from his fellow p...

from psiloiordinary

The title says a lot. He was pretty odd, in a distant but ultimately very human way. You may feel sympathy, frustration, even despair for him while reading this. Although in the end he raised a family and led a successful life by anyone's standards. The science is put very simply and there wasn't...

from VisibleGhost

Dirac was as taciturn as a person could get and not be a mute. His colleagues invented a term called 'a dirac' for the shortest answer possible to a question. He didn't keep a diary and his letters to his parents (postcards) usually contained twenty words or less. Stories abound from his fellow p...

from greeniezona

It wasn't until very near the end of this book that I finally identified the niggling something that had seemed strange throughout it. Most biographies are driven by emotional narrative. To put it in Myers-Briggs terms, they're F books. This book is clearly at T. But what could be more appropriat...