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<p>VAViking: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Dirac.gif|right|thumb|Paul Dirac]]<br /> '''Paul A.M. Dirac''' (1902-1984) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] theoretical [[physicist]] who helped develop mathematical expressions of relativistic [[quantum mechanics]]. His [[science|scientific]] [[philosophy]] was this: &quot;Physical laws should have mathematical beauty and simplicity.&quot; <br /> <br /> Dirac developed a equation of motion for the wavefunction of the [[electron]] based on [[Theory of relativity|relativity]]. Dirac predicted the existence of the [[positron]], the electron's [[antiparticle]], which was subsequently discovered by [[Carl Anderson]] in 1932. Dirac was awarded th eNobel Prize in 1932, the youngest scientist ever to win it. Dirac was the founder of [[quantum electrodynamics]].<br /> <br /> Dirac published the &quot;[[Principles of Quantum Mechanics]]&quot; in 1930, which introduced the widely used [[delta]] [[function]] and [[bra-ket notation]]. Inspired in part by this book, the physicist [[Richard Feynman]] later proposed a path integral formulation of quantum mechanics in 1948.<br /> <br /> Dirac spent most of his career at Cambridge University; he later taught at Florida State University.<br /> <br /> Dirac was such an outspoken atheist that fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli is said to had quipped: &quot;Our friend Dirac also has a religion! The central tenet of his religion is: 'There is no God, and Dirac is His prophet.' &quot; <br /> <br /> <br /> ==further reading==<br /> * Farmelo, Graham. '' The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom'' (2009)<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Dirac, Paul}}<br /> [[Category:Physicists]]<br /> [[category:Nobel laureates in Physics]]</div>

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<p>VAViking: </p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Dirac.gif|right|thumb|Paul Dirac]]<br /> '''Paul A.M. Dirac''' (1902-1984) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] theoretical [[physicist]] who helped develop mathematical expressions of relativistic [[quantum mechanics]]. His [[science|scientific]] [[philosophy]] was this: &quot;Physical laws should have mathematical beauty and simplicity.&quot; <br /> <br /> Dirac developed a equation of motion for the wavefunction of the [[electron]] based on [[Theory of relativity|relativity]]. Dirac predicted the existence of the [[positron]], the electron's [[antiparticle]], which was subsequently discovered by [[Carl Anderson]] in 1932. Dirac was awarded th eNobel Prize in 1932, the youngest scientist ever to win it. Dirac was the founder of [[quantum electrodynamics]].<br /> <br /> Dirac published the &quot;[[Principles of Quantum Mechanics]]&quot; in 1930, which introduced the widely used [[delta]] [[function]] and [[bra-ket notation]]. Inspired in part by this book, the physicist [[Richard Feynman]] later proposed a path integral formulation of quantum mechanics in 1948.<br /> <br /> Dirac spent most of his career at Cambridge University; he later taught at Florida State University.<br /> <br /> Dirac was such an outspoken atheist that fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli is said to had quipped: &quot;Our friend Dirac also has a religion! The central tenet of his religion is: 'There is no God, and Dirac is His prophet'&quot; <br /> <br /> <br /> ==further reading==<br /> * Farmelo, Graham. '' The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom'' (2009)<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Dirac, Paul}}<br /> [[Category:Physicists]]<br /> [[category:Nobel laureates in Physics]]</div>

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