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The Strangest Man
The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac,
Quantum Genius
GRAHAM FARMELO
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To my mother and the memory of my late father
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Contents
Prologue
The Strangest Man
Abbreviations in Notes
Notes
Bibliography
List of Plates
Acknowledgements
Index
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[T]he amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental
vigour, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief
danger of the time.
JOHN ST UART MILL, On Liberty, 1869
We are nothing without the work of others our predecessors, others our teachers, others our
contemporaries. Even when, in the measure of our inadequacy and our fullness, new insight and new order
are created, we are still nothing without others. Yet we are more.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, Reith Lecture, 20 December 1953
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[A] good deal of unkindness and selfishness on the part of parents towards children is not generally
followed by ill consequences to the parents themselves. They may cast a gloom over their children’s lives
for many years.
SAMUEL BUTLER, The Way of All Flesh, 1903
All it took was a single glass of orange juice laced with hydrochloric acid. A few minutes later, it was clear
that his digestive problems were due to a chronic deficiency of stomach acid. For months, he had been
admitted to hospital every few weeks to be fed vitamins intravenously, but the doctors had no idea why his
digestion was so poor. Now, following the orange-juice experiment, a laboratory test on the chemical
contents of his stomach confirmed the conclusion that his stomach contained far too little acid. The simple
prescription of a