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The Strangest Man

Paul Stuart

Paul Dirac won a Nobel Prize for Physics at 31. He was one of quantum mechanics' founding fathers, an Einstein-level genius. He was also virtually incapable of having normal social interactions. Graham Farmelo's biography explains Dirac's mysterious life and work.

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