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Dirac: A Scientific Biography Hardcover - 1990

by Helge Kragh


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This first full-length biography of Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac offers a comprehensive account of his physics in its historical context, including less known areas such as cosmology and classical electron theory. It is based extensively on unpublished sources, including Dirac's correspondence with Bohr, Heisenberg, Pauli, Schrdinger, Gamow and others. Dirac was undoubtedly one of the most brilliant and influential physicists of the twentieth century. Between 1925 and 1934, the Nobel Prize laureate revolutionized physics with his brilliant contributions to quantum theory. This work examines Dirac's successes and failures, and pays particular attention to his opposition to modern quantum electrodynamics; an opposition based on aesthetic objections.

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PAUL DIRAC signed his scientific papers and most of his letters P.A.M. Dirac, and for a long time, it was somewhat of a mystery what the initials stood for.

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  • Title Dirac: A Scientific Biography
  • Author Helge Kragh
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, et al.:
  • Date 1990-03-30
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780521380898 / 0521380898
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.56 x 6.46 x 1.18 in (24.28 x 16.41 x 3.00 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Physicists - Great Britain - Biography, Dirac, P. A. M
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 89017257
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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