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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM (August 8, 1902 in Bristol – October 20, 1984 in Tallahassee) was an English physicist.
Dirac's father came from the French-speaking part of Switzerland.
Dirac worked out a formulation of quantum mechanics, which includes Erwin Schrödinger's wave mechanics and Werner Heisenberg's matrix mechanics in 1926. In 1928 he found the Dirac equation and he found out that spin in quantum mechanics is an effect of relativity. The Dirac equation allowed Dirac to predict the existence of antimatter, which is the opposite of matter.
In 1933 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics.
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.[7]
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- ↑ "Nobel Bio". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
- ↑ Bhabha, Homi Jehangir (1935). On cosmic radiation and the creation and annihilation of positrons and electrons. repository.cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.727546.
- ↑ Paul Dirac at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Polkinghorne, John Charlton (1955). Contributions to quantum field theory. lib.cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.727138.
- ↑ Farmelo, Graham (2009). The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius. Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-22278-0.
- ↑ Cassidy, David C. (2010). "Graham Farmelo. The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom". Isis. 101. University of Chicago Press: 661. doi:10.1086/657209.
Farmelo also discusses, across several chapters, the influences of John Stuart Mill...
- ↑ "DigiTool Results Full". Retrieved January 30, 2012.[permanent dead link]
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- Dirac Medal Archived 2007-02-08 at the Wayback Machine of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics
- Dirac Medal of the World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists (WATOC)
- Photographs of Dirac Archived 2005-05-11 at the Wayback Machine
- The Paul Dirac Collection at Florida State University[permanent dead link]
- The Paul A. M. Dirac Collection Finding Aid at Florida State University Archived 2007-04-02 at the Wayback Machine
- Photocopies of Dirac's papers from the Florida State University collection Archived 2009-11-16 at the Wayback Machine, held under Dirac's name in the Archive Centre of Churchill College, Cambridge, UK
- Letters from Dirac (1932-36) and other papers Archived 2009-11-16 at the Wayback Machine, held in the Personal Papers archives of St John's College, Cambridge, UK
- Annotated bibliography for Paul Dirac from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues Archived 2019-05-02 at the Wayback Machine