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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 ...
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1933 was awarded jointly to Erwin Schrödinger and Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory"
Oct 16, 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.
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.
Feb 1, 1998 · Paul Dirac: the purest soul in physics. 01 Feb 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. Genius at work.
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 ...
Oct 20, 2014 · After his PhD thesis, Paul Dirac started combining this new field of quantum mechanics with Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity – which ultimately won him the Nobel prize. The Nobel committee explained their choice: “The importance of Dirac’s work lies in his famous wave equation, which introduced special relativity into ...
Paul A.M. Dirac was a quantum mechanics physicist at the University of Cambridge. He was awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory."
Nov 1, 2009 · Paul Dirac, a man apart. Dirac practiced theoretical physics for almost 60 years with a unique style: a sometimes baffling combination of intuition, imagination, rectilinear logic, and steam-hammer mathematical power. Graham Farmelo. Physics Today 62 (11), 46–50 (2009); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3265236.
