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• pseudolus · Apr 5, 2021 · Recommends

  Great article with a number of well-known references to biographies of Feynman. For those interested in Dirac, some excellent biographies have emerged over the years including: "The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom" and "Dirac: A Scientific Biography ". [0][1]. [0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002LDM8QS/ref=dbs_a_def_r...…

  on “When Feynman met Dirac (2020)” ↗
• pseudolus · Oct 22, 2014 · Recommends

  "Dirac: A Scientific Biography" provides a more technical overview than Farmelo's book (not to detract from Farmelo's book which is very well written and provides a great deal of depth about Dirac the individual).…

  on “Paul Dirac: The Quiet Genius Died 30 Years Ago” ↗
• cambalache · Jan 22, 2021 · Recommends

  …Us All, William Dunham (This is less a biography more like a compedium, still recommended) Archimedes -> Archimedes, E.J Dijksterhuis(As many on this list, this is considered the seminal biography) Dirac -> The strangest man ,Graham Farmelo (This is a popular account by a good writer). Dirac: A Scientific Biography, Helge Kragh. More technical.

  on “10,000 Hours with Claude Shannon (2017)” ↗
• throwaway81523 · Sep 5, 2021 · Recommends

  Helge Kragh's biography of Dirac is sort of a subset of what you want. It goes past the 1930s and it focuses on Dirac, but Dirac's most famous works were in the 1920s and 1930s, and it covers them pretty well.

  on “The Golden Age of Quantum Physics” ↗