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Dirac’s biography is set within a clear cut account of the development of 20th century physics

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This biography is a fascinating look at one of the founders of quantum mechanics and field theory

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Graham farmello was on his way to writing an epic piece of biography about a fascinating man and scientist

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Then in the last chapter he veers off course and starts trying to rationalize an almost comically inept claim of autism

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Such a shame to like an author as much as his subject until the very end and have it fall apart with the finish line in sight

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The title of farmelo’s book comes from niels bohr who told a colleague that paul dirac was “the strangest man” to ever visit bohr’s institute in cophenhagen

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In a field that is historically dense with collaborations and exchanges of findings and methods dirac was an extreme outlier as someone who rarely talked at all infamous for one word responses even in conversations with colleagues about scientific matters

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Felix committed suicide relatively early in his adult life apparently over frustration with his lack of achievement