Paul Dirac
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Paul Dirac was a British theoretical physicist who lived from 1902 to 1984 and made fundamental contributions to quantum mechanics and the theory of antimatter. His work laid essential groundwork for modern physics by combining quantum theory with Einstein's theory of relativity.
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- 1902
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- 1984
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- Les principes de la mécanique quantique
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- QUANTISED SINGULARITIES IN THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD. In Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Volume 133. 1931. pp. 60-72.
- THE QUANTUM THEORY OF THE EMISSION AND ABSORPTION OF RADIATION. Proceedings of the Royal Society. Series A. Vol. 114. No. A 767 pp. 243-265. THE QUANTUM THEORY OF DISPERSION. Proceedings of the Royal Society. Series A. Vol. 114. No. A 769. pp. 710-728. Two Papers.
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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (/dɪ.ˈræk/, dih-RAK; 8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984) was a British theoretical physicist who is considered to be one of the founders of quantum mechanics. Dirac laid the foundations for both quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory, coining the former term. He was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge from 1932 to 1969, and a professor of physics at Florida State University from 1970 to 1984. Dirac shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics with Erwin Schrödinger "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory."
Dirac graduated from the University of Bristol with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1921, and a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics in 1923. Dirac then graduated from St John's College, Cambridge, with a Doctor of Philosophy in Physics in 1926, writing the first ever thesis on quantum mechanics.
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