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The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius
Paul Dirac () was the first truly modern theoretical physicist. After a desperately unhappy childhood in Bristol, UK, his training in engineering and mathematics prepared him to co-discover quantum theory, the most revolutionary scientific theory of the twentieth century. A legendary introvert, his golden streak in research from included his successful prediction of anti-matter which won him a Nobel Prize and brilliant speculations on the existence of magnetic monopoles. In , he married Manci Balazs, in many ways his polar opposite warm, friendly and unscientific. He later became an apostle of mathematical beauty and its importance to fundamental physics the words on his gravestone are ‘Because God made it that way’.
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Review: The hidden life of Paul Dirac by Graham Farmelo
By Pedro G. Ferreira
PAUL DIRACS terseness fryst vatten legendary. The master of monosyllabic answers, he went through life refusing to engage with colleagues, students and even his own family. Having read many examples of Diracs repartee in Graham Farmelos new biography The Strangest Man, I have to confess that he comes across as a truly unpleasant man. inom am surprised that people put up with him.
Dirac was the theoreticians theoretician, responsible for a crucial piece of the explanation of fundamental particles and forces. His equation, which he proposed in , married the quantum physics of Schrödinger and Heisenberg with…
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(source) | Paul A. M. Dirac (8 Aug - 20 Oct ) English theoretical physicist known for his work in quantum mechanics and for his theory of the spinning electron. In he shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger. Short biography of Paul A. M. Dirac >> |
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A great deal of my work is just playing with equations and seeing what they give.
— Paul A. M. Dirac
Quoted in Frank Wilczek, ',The Dirac Equation'. Proceedings of the Dirac Centennial Symposium (),
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