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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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Oct 22, 1984 · Paul Adrian Maurice Dirac, a physicist who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1933 and worked alongside Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer, died Saturday at home after a long illness.
Dirac was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics chair at Cambridge University from 1932 until his retirement in 1969. He was Professor of Physics at Florida State University from 1972 until his death in 1984.
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Dirac shared the 1933 Nobel Prize for physics with Erwin Schrödinger "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory." Dirac was also awarded the Royal Medal in 1939 and both the Copley Medal and the Max Planck medal in 1952. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1930, and of the American Physical Society in 1948. Immediately ...
Dirac was known among his colleagues for his precise and taciturn nature. When Niels Bohr complained that he did not know how to finish a sentence in a scientific article he was writing, Dirac replied, "I was taught at school never to start a sentence without knowing the end of it." . When asked about his views on poetry, he responded, "In science ...
Dirac did not believe in God. He once said: "God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world," but here he used 'God' as a metaphor for nature. Werner Heisenberg recollects a friendly conversation among young participants at the 1927 Solvay Conference about Einstein and Planck'sviews on religion. Wolfgang Pauli, Heisenberg and Dirac took part ...
Dirac is widely regarded as one of the greatest physicists of all time. He was one of the founders of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. Many physicists consider Dirac the greatest physicist of the twentieth century. Physicist Antonino Zichichi, a professor of advanced physics at the University of Bologna, believes that Dirac had a much...
Dirac, P. A. M. 1958. The Principles of Quantum Mechanics.Oxford: Clarendon Press. OCLC 534829. (This book summarizes the ideas of quantum mechanics using the modern formalism that was largely deve...
Quantum mechanicsCrease, Robert P. and Charles C. Mann. The Second Creation: makers of the revolution in twentieth century physics,revised. New York: Macmillan Publishing, Rutgers University Press.(Original 1986),...Schweber, Silvan S. QED and the men who made it: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga.Princeton University Press, 1994. Includes a chapter on Dirac as the founder of quantum electrodynamics.Gisela Dirac "Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac"Family geneology, and additional biographical sources.All links retrieved January 27, 2019. 1. John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson. Paul Diracat the MacTutor archive 2. Dirac Medalof the World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists (WATOC) 3. Annotated bibliography for Paul Dirac from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues
Oct 2, 2009 · Up next, the strangest physicist you probably never heard of. At age 31 in 1933, Paul Dirac won the Nobel Prize. And at the time, he was the youngest person ever to receive that honor.
Dec 22, 2017 · Full name: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac. Born: August 8, 1902, in Bristol, England. Married: Margit "Manci" Wigner, 1937. Children: Judith & Gabriel (Margit's children whom Paul adopted) followed by Mary Elizabeth and Florence Monica. Died: October 20, 1984, in Tallahassee, Florida.
Nov 1, 2019 · On 9 November 1933, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1932 would go to Werner Heisenberg and the 1933 prize would be shared between Erwin Schrödinger and Paul Dirac (see figure 1). When that announcement was made, three years had elapsed since a physics Nobel had been awarded, the longest ...
