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Strange Genius: The Life and Times of Paul Dirac

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A very strange year

If 2001 was a space odyssey, how would you describe 2002? For the physics community it has certainly been the strangest and most disturbing year for quite some time, and the bizarre story of the Bogdanov brothers is a fittingly surreal way for 2002 to end.

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