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Special relativity. Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac OM FRS [6] ( / dɪˈræk /; 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 and quantum electrodynamics. [7] [8] He is credited with laying the foundations of quantum field theory.
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Apr 24, 2024 · quantum. 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. Dirac is most famous for his 1928 relativistic quantum theory of the electron and his prediction of ...
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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. Here, he studied electrical engineering, obtaining the B.Sc. (Engineering) degree in 1921.
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When Dirac went to Cambridge in 1923, the physics of matter on the smallest scales – in those days this was the physics of the atom – was in ferment. It had been known for more than a decade that the old mechanics of Newton – “classical” mechanics, as it came to be called – does not apply in the microscopic world. In particular, evidence from the l...
Although brilliant – in Einstein’s words, “the most logically perfect presentation of quantum mechanics” – this was a reformulation of physics that had, admittedly only just, been discovered. Dirac’s main contribution came several years later, when (still in his mid-twenties) he made his most spectacular discovery. Before quantum mechanics, there h...
Having explained spin, it was natural for Dirac to try to explain electric charge, and in particular the mysterious fact that it is quantized: all charges found in nature are multiples of the charge on the electron. In classical electricity, there is no basis for this: charges can have any value. In 1931 Dirac gave a solution of this problem in an ...
It is not my intention to write about what sort of person Dirac was. But I must mention the genre of “Dirac stories”. He was so unusual in the logic and precision of his interaction with the world, both in and out of physics, that tales have become attached to him and have acquired a life of their own. I suppose it matters to a historian whether th...
A tribute to Paul Dirac, one of the greatest intellects of the 20th century, who made fundamental contributions to quantum mechanics and relativistic physics. Learn about his life, work and legacy, from his early papers on quantization to his famous equation for the electron.
Oct 2, 2009 · Physicist Paul Dirac Is 'The Strangest Man' In a new biography, Graham Farmelo digs deep into the archives and personal papers of a little-known Nobel-winning physicist. Farmelo discusses The ...
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Dr. Paul A.M. Dirac, 82, a Nobel prize winner in physics who was one of the founding fathers of the quantum theory, a landmark in man's understanding of the material universe, died Saturday at his ...
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 ...
