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I'm halfway through Graham Farmelo's Dirac biography at the moment, and enjoying it quite a bit. Farmelo cites Dirac as one of the first physicists to evaluate theories on their mathematical beauty, rather than waiting for experiments.
There has been a fair amount of discussion of Graham Farmelo's The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom-- Peter Woit reviewed it on his blog, the
So, who are the people in yesterday's poll about theoretical physicists, and why should you know them?

On the subject of Do I have Swine Flu? I suggest the readers use the view source options on their browser for that particular page. The CSS is somewhat interesting and the javascript in the page itself reveals their intentions. (To get noticed by the almighty Google) No idea who TheColonel is, (I don't Reddit) but this is interesting dynamic in play with sites such as that one.

By Onkel Bob (not verified) on 01 May 2009 #permalink