Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Times Higher Education Supplement.This biography, long overdue, is most welcome.’ Paul Dirac was a strange man in a strange world. ‘ sympathetic portrait….Of the small group of young men who developed quantum mechanics and revolutionized physics almost a century ago, he truly stands out.
The story it tells is moving, sometimes comic, sometimes infinitely sad, and goes to the roots of what we mean by truth in science.’ And he now has a biography to match his talents: a wonderful book by Graham Farmelo. ‘If Newton was the Shakespeare of British physics, Dirac was its Milton, the most fascinating and enigmatic of all our great scientists. ‘Fascinating reading… Graham Farmelo has done a splendid job of portraying Dirac and his world. the most satisfying and memorable biography I have read in years.’ 'Did Paul Dirac, a supreme theoretical physicist - the Einstein of quantum mechanics - have Asperger's syndrome? Certainly he was a very peculiar man, but brilliant and compelling, as Farmelo's wonderful and sensitive portrait brings out.' Boris Johnson is trusted to deliver, he says: 1 year ago.
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