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Nature 459, 326-327 (21 May 2009) | doi:10.1038/459326a; Published online 20 May 2009

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Paul Dirac: a physicist of few words

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A detailed biography argues that the Nobel prizewinner's notorious reticence delayed experimentalists from discovering the antimatter that would confirm his elegant theory, explains Frank Close.

BOOK REVIEWEDThe Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac

by Graham Farmelo

Faber & Faber: 2009. 560 pp. £22.50

Among scientists, Paul Dirac is widely regarded as being in the same league as Albert Einstein. In London's Westminster Abbey, Dirac's eponymous equation describing the quantum behaviour of electrons is set in stone.

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