British theoretical physicist Paul Dirac was one of the most significant figures in the early days of quantum physics, who along with Erwin Schrödinger won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1933. But it ...

It’s hard to imagine a more formidable subject for a biographer. Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1902-84) was a pioneer of quantum theory in the 1920s and 1930s and fully as obscure and bizarre as that ...

In 1933, when Albert Einstein became the first staff member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, he was asked who he wanted to join him. The first name on his lips was a ...

The salmon-coloured house in the centre of the photo is 15 Monk Road, the birthplace of Paul Dirac. This view of suburban Bristol is from our back window and would have been somewhat different in 1902 ...

Paul Dirac was one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics, and perhaps the greatest British theoretical physicist since Isaac Newton. After he predicted, with no clues from experiment, the existence of ...

THE STRANGEST MAN: THE HIDDEN LIFE OF PAUL DIRAC, MYSTIC OF THE ATOM Graham Farmelo Basic Books, 539 pp., $29.95 The British physicist Paul Dirac (1902-84), a winner of the Nobel Prize, is generally ...

Paul Dirac, born in England in 1902, grew up as a shy and lonely child under a strict father. He had the type of precise mind that makes for great mathematicians and good linguists - in fact, he often ...

The idea of the spinning electron, as proposed by Samuel Goudsmit and George Uhlenbeck in 1925 (Milestone 3), and incorporated into the formalism of quantum mechanics by Wolfgang Pauli, was a solution ...

Born in Bristol, England, in 1902, Paul Dirac was, after Einstein, the second most important theoretical physicist of the 20th century. He studied at Cambridge, where he wrote the first-ever ...

"Probably the greatest British theoretical physicist since Newton,” is how Stephen Hawking described Paul Dirac at his Westminster Abbey commemoration service in 1995. A pioneer of quantum mechanics ...