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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac OM FRS [6] (/ d ɪ ˈ r æ k /; 8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984) was an English mathematical and theoretical physicist who is considered to be one of the founders of quantum mechanics.
Biographical. Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was born on 8th August, 1902, at Bristol, England, his father being Swiss and his mother English. He was educated at the Merchant Venturer’s Secondary School, Bristol, then went on to Bristol University.
Aug 7, 2024 · P.A.M. Dirac was an English theoretical physicist who was one of the founders of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. Dirac is most famous for his 1928 relativistic quantum theory of the electron and his prediction of the existence of antiparticles. In 1933 he shared the Nobel Prize for.
Feb 1, 1998 · Paul Dirac: the purest soul in physics. Paul Dirac published the first of his papers on “The Quantum Theory of the Electron” seventy years ago this month. The Dirac equation, derived in those papers, is one of the most important equations in physics, says Michael Berry. Genius at work.
Oct 2, 2009 · Farmelo discusses The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom and his theory that Dirac may have been autistic.
Aug 5, 2023 · British theoretical physicist Paul Dirac was one of the most significant figures in the early days of quantum physics, who along with Erwin Schrödinger won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1933 ...
May 20, 2009 · Among scientists, Paul Dirac is widely regarded as being in the same league as Albert Einstein. In London's Westminster Abbey, Dirac's eponymous equation describing the quantum behaviour of ...
Facts. Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1933. Born: 8 August 1902, Bristol, United Kingdom. Died: 20 October 1984, Tallahassee, FL, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Dirac visited the Soviet Union in 1928. It was the first of many visits for he went again in 1929, 1930, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1957, 1965, and 1973. Also in 1928 he found a connection between relativity and quantum mechanics, his famous spin-1/2 Dirac equation.
In 1928, British physicist Paul Dirac wrote down an equation that combined quantum theory and special relativity to describe the behaviour of an electron moving at a relativistic speed.
