The strangest man is the report on Paul Dirac, the famous physicist who was awarded the Costa Book Prize and is sometimes referred to as the English Einstein. He was one of the leading pioneers of the great revolution in twentieth-century science: quantum mechanics. In 1933, he was the youngest theorist to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics. Dirac was oddly taciturn, took everything literally, and his reserved way of communicating, as well as his lack of empathy, became legendary. During his most successful creative period, his postcards to his parents consisted solely of reports about the weather. Based on previously undiscovered documents from the family archive, Graham Farmelo combines an informed account of Dirac's scientific achievements with a sensitive portrait of the individual Paul Dirac. He presents a human being.