Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On a navy blue background is the book cover of 'The One Thing You Need to Know: 21 Key Scientific Concepts of the 21st Century' by ...

The salmon-coloured house in the centre of the photo is 15 Monk Road, the birthplace of Paul Dirac. This view of suburban Bristol is from our back window and would have been somewhat different in 1902 ...

Paul Dirac was one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics, and perhaps the greatest British theoretical physicist since Isaac Newton. After he predicted, with no clues from experiment, the existence of ...

Award-winning writer and physicist Graham Farmelo talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky (pictured) about The Strangest Man, Farmelo's biography of Nobel Prize–winning theoretical physicist Paul Dirac.

Few people perhaps know what “positron” is in “Positron Emission Tomography” (PET scan). PET works by using radioactive atoms which emit particles called positrons, the antiparticle of electrons ...

In the first quarter of the 20th century, it was an intense time to be a physicist. It seemed like every day someone was coming out with a new theory that completely revolutionized our understanding ...

It’s hard to imagine a more formidable subject for a biographer. Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1902-84) was a pioneer of quantum theory in the 1920s and 1930s and fully as obscure and bizarre as that ...

THE STRANGEST MAN: THE HIDDEN LIFE OF PAUL DIRAC, MYSTIC OF THE ATOM Graham Farmelo Basic Books, 539 pp., $29.95 The British physicist Paul Dirac (1902-84), a winner of the Nobel Prize, is generally ...

Louisa Gilder loves this new biography of the physicist, Paul Dirac, The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo, which she calls "the most satisfying and memorable biography I have read in years". Farmelo ...