Paul Dirac

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Paul Dirac was a pioneering British theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate whose work laid the foundations of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics.


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instanceOf Nobel laureate
human
physicist
theoretical physicist
university teacher
academicDegree Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering
PhD in physics
awardReceived Copley Medal
Dirac Medal of the Institute of Physics
Max Planck Medal
Nobel Prize in Physics
Royal Medal
burialPlace Tallahassee
citizenship United Kingdom
United States of America
countryOfBirth United Kingdom
countryOfDeath United States of America
dateOfBirth 1902-08-08
dateOfDeath 1984-10-20
doctoralAdvisor Ralph Fowler
educatedAt St John’s College, Cambridge NERFINISHED
University of Bristol
University of Cambridge NERFINISHED
employer Florida State University
University of Cambridge NERFINISHED
familyName Dirac
father Charles Adrien Ladislas Dirac
fieldOfWork general relativity
particle physics
quantum electrodynamics
quantum mechanics
theoretical physics
fullName Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
givenName Paul
hasSignature signature of Paul Dirac
influenced Julian Schwinger
Paul A. M. Dirac Medal and Prize (named after him)
Richard Feynman
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
Steven Weinberg
knownFor development of quantum electrodynamics
foundations of quantum mechanics
prediction of the positron
relativistic wave equation for the electron
languageSpoken English
memberOf American Physical Society
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Royal Society
mother Florence Hannah Holten
nobelPrizeCategory Physics
nobelPrizeYear 1933
notableWork Dirac delta function
Dirac equation
Dirac notation
The Principles of Quantum Mechanics
magnetic monopole theory
prediction of antimatter
quantum electrodynamics
quantum theory of the electron
placeOfBirth Bristol
placeOfDeath Tallahassee
positionHeld Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge
professor of physics at Florida State University
religion agnosticism
sharedNobelPrizeWith Erwin Schrödinger
sibling Béla Wigner (brother-in-law)
spouse Margit Wigner


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