此書獲得2009 Costa Prize Best Biography 最佳自傳獎
版權已售 USA (Basic Books); Greece (Travlos); and Japan (Hayakawa). 根據過去未發現的家族書信寫成，榮獲英美主流媒體「超」高評價〈請見下方落落長的推薦…〉
來自英美主流媒體與物理學界的重‧量‧推‧薦：
“This biography is a gift. It is both wonderfully written (certainly not a given in the category Accessible Biographies of Mathematical Physicists) and a thought-provoking meditation on human achievement, limitations and the relations between the two…. [T]he most satisfying and memorable biography I have read in years.”---紐約時報書評《New York Times Book Review》
“Paul Dirac won a Nobel Prize for Physics at 31. He was one of quantum mechanics’ founding fathers, an Einstein-level genius. He was also virtually incapable of having normal social interactions. Graham Farmelo’s biography explains Dirac’s mysterious life and work.”---時代雜誌 《Time Magazine》
“Farmelo did not pick the easiest biography to write – its subject lived a largely solitary life in deep thought. But Dirac was also beset with tragedy… and in that respect, the author proposes some novel insights into what shaped the man. This would be a strong addition to a bibliography of magnificent 20th-century physicist biographies, including Walter Issacson’s Einstein, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin’s American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, and James Gleick’s Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman.”---圖書館學刊《Library Journal》
“[A] sympathetic portrait….Of the small group of young men who developed quantum mechanics and revolutionized physics almost a century ago, he truly stands out. Paul Dirac was a strange man in a strange world. This biography, long overdue, is most welcome.”---經濟學人
“Fascinating reading… Graham Farmelo has done a splendid job of portraying Dirac and his world. The biography is a major achievement.”---Peter Higgs, 時代雜誌 (UK)
“If Newton was the Shakespeare of British physics, Dirac was its Milton, the most fascinating and enigmatic of all our great scientists. And he now has a biography to match his talents: a wonderful book by Graham Farmelo. The story it tells is moving, sometimes comic, sometimes infinitely sad, and goes to the roots of what we mean by truth in science.”---每日電訊報
“Farmelo’s splendid biography has enough scientific exposition for the biggest science fan and enough human interest for the rest of us. It creates a picture of a man who was a great theoretical scientist but also an awkward but oddly endearing human being…. This is a fine book: a fitting tribute to a significant and intriguing scientific figure.”---週日先驅報《Sunday Herald》
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本書甫榮獲2010年洛杉磯時報科普類 最佳選書獎
As you may already have heard, Graham Farmelo’s work THE STRANGEST MAN: THE HIDDEN LIFE OF PAUL DIRAC, QUANTUM GENIUS, has won the 2010 L. A. Times book prize in the Science and Technology category - yet another accolade for a really extraordinary work. http://events.latimes.com/bookprizes/
Rights to date have sold in the USA (Basic Books), Greece (Travlos), and Japan (Hayakawa).
Rights Sold: USA (Basic Books (Perseus)); Greece (Travlos); Japan (Hayakawa); Turkey (Is Kultur)