Dirac: A Scientific Biography (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521017565)

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 It is based extensively on unpublished sources, including Dirac's correspondence with Bohr, Heisenberg, Pauli, Schr dinger, Gamow and others.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.

Author: Helge Kragh
ISBN-10: 0521017564
ISBN-13: 9780521017565
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/21/2005
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.82d