Paul dirac

Paul Dirac (Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac) (1902-1984) was an english theoretical physicist who is regarded as one of the most significant physicists of the 20th century. He was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, a professor at Florida State University and the University of Miami, and a 1933 Nobel Prize recipient. Dirac made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. Among other discoveries, he...

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English physicist Paul Dirac helped develop quantum mechanics, earned the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics, and predicted the existence of antimatter.

Paul Dirac's research marked the first time something never before seen in nature was "predicted" - that is, postulated to exist based on theoretical rather than experimental evidence

The three Titans of quantum mechanics: (L-R) Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger at the Stockholm Railway Station, c. 1933.

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