Paul Dirac
In Our Time: Science
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Durak's Life
Durak was a one-off. Neil's boy in Copenhagen said he was the strangest man ever to visit his institute. In Germany, we know from the Court of Einstein that they really did regard him as a very unusual animal. He had this engineers' sensibility and the sensibility of a theoretical physicist. They thought this was decidedly odd. It wasn't the Germanic tradition of theoretical physics. So it is quite fair to say that Durak was an outsider. Every sense he was not somebody who could be regarded as a typical theoretician.
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