The strange history of Paul Dirac
APR 10, 2009
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023231
The Guardian : Here’s a puzzle. Bristol boy â slightly older contemporary of Bristol’s other boy Cary Grant â has an unhappy childhood, but doesn’t mention it for 50 years; learns to speak French, German and Russian, but becomes famous for his long silences; embarks on the wrong career; gets interested in mathematics and ends up at Cambridge, where he becomes famous for his even longer silences; hears about Einstein and gets into advanced physics; and then goes to Copenhagen to meet Niels Bohr, who grumbles to Ernest Rutherford, “This Dirac, he seems to know a lot of physics, but he never says anything.”
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