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Oct. 02, 2009
'The Strangest Man,' Paul Dirac
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| Non-physicists have probably heard of Erwin Schrödinger -- but fewer will recognize the name of Paul Dirac, the physicist who shared the Nobel Prize with Schrödinger for work in atomic theory. His work describes the quantum behavior of particles such as electrons -- and served to predict the existence of the positron before its discovery. In this segment, Ira talks with Graham Farmello, author of a new biography of Dirac. |
Produced by Annette Heist, Senior Producer
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Graham Farmelo
Author, "The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom" (Basic Books, 2009)
Adjunct Professor of Physics, Northeastern University
Senior Research Fellow, Science Museum, London
London, England
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