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The ABC’s of ScienceDirac. Beauty Is Truth, Truth Beauty

The ABC’s of Science: Dirac. Beauty Is Truth, Truth Beauty [Robert Oppenheimer once said that Wolfgang Pauli was the only person he knew who was equal to his caricature. Several years later, Jeremy Bernstein felt compelled to add that if Pauli was similar to his caricature, Paul Dirac was even more picturesque than his caricature! The impenetrable reserve, the austere lifestyle, an almost impenetrable secrecy, all combined with an almost obsessive paucity of words, have made Dirac an inexhaustible source of anecdotes and jokes.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The ABC’s of ScienceDirac. Beauty Is Truth, Truth Beauty

Mussardo, Giuseppe
Springer Journals — Nov 6, 2020
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Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-55168-1
Pages
31 –38
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-55169-8_4
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Abstract

[Robert Oppenheimer once said that Wolfgang Pauli was the only person he knew who was equal to his caricature. Several years later, Jeremy Bernstein felt compelled to add that if Pauli was similar to his caricature, Paul Dirac was even more picturesque than his caricature! The impenetrable reserve, the austere lifestyle, an almost impenetrable secrecy, all combined with an almost obsessive paucity of words, have made Dirac an inexhaustible source of anecdotes and jokes.]

Published: Nov 6, 2020

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