The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo5/9/2023 ![]() It was the purity and power of Dirac’s top-down mathematical approach to science that convinced Graham of what to do next – become a theoretical physicist. Twenty-seven years later, Graham wrote in the Times Higher Education about the experience of first reading the book. Bendall was a twenty-four carat Dirac fanatic, reading Dirac’s textbook ‘ Principles of Quantum Mechanics’ every Christmas, and even naming one of his daughters after him (Paula). ![]() ![]() In the course of selling tickets for a weekly raffle – he met the government scientist John Bendall, from whom Graham learned about Paul Dirac and his contributions to theoretical physics. Graham first heard about the subject of ‘ The Strangest Man’ when he was fifteen years old. ![]()
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