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The Strangest Man The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac,Quantum Genius GRAHAM FARMELO
To my mother and the memory of my late father
Contents Prologue The Strangest Man Abbreviations in Notes Notes Bibliography List of Plates Acknowledgements Index
[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 STUART 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
Prologue
[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 pill to be taken after every meal ended almost eight decades of digestive problems. As a result, Kurt Hofer, the friend who suggested the experiment and made the correct diagnosis, became the reluctant health guru to Paul Dirac, one of the most revered – and strangest – figures in the history of science.
Hofer and Dirac both worked at Florida State University but otherwise appeared to have little in common. Hofer – just over forty years of age – was a top-drawer cell biologist, a spirited raconteur who told all comers of his early family life among Austrian mountain farmers and his moment of cinematic glory as a well-paid extra in The Sound of Music. Hofer’s eyes glittered when he told his stories, his thickly accented voice swooped and surged for emphasis, his hands chopped and shaped the air as if it were dough. Even in this lively company ............

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