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Portrait of Paul Dirac by Clara Ewald (1939) 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. [7] [8] Dirac laid the foundations for both quantum electrodynamics and quantum field ...
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.
Oct 1, 2024 · Academia - Paul Dirac and the Nobel Prize in Physics (Oct. 01, 2024) P.A.M. Dirac (born August 8, 1902, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England—died October 20, 1984, Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.) was an English theoretical physicist who was one of the founders of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics.
Feb 1, 1998 · 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
Biography. Paul Dirac's father was Charles Adrien Ladislas Dirac and his mother was Florence Hannah Holten. Charles Dirac was a Swiss citizen born in Monthey, in the Valais Canton of Switzerland, while his mother came from Cornwall in England. Charles had been educated at the University of Geneva, then came to England in around 1888 and taught ...
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 ...
In 1928 Paul Dirac formulated a fully relativistic quantum theory. The equation gave solutions that he interpreted as being caused by a particle equivalent to the electron, but with a positive charge.
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 ...
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.
P.A.M. Dirac, (born Aug. 8, 1902, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Eng.—died Oct. 20, 1984, Tallahassee, Fla., U.S.), English mathematician and theoretical physicist. His first major contribution (1925–26) was a general and logically simple form of quantum mechanics.
