Based on previously unreleased correspondence and documents, Farmelo (Science Museum, London; physics, Northeastern U.) offers a fascinating biography of English mathematician and physicist,
Paul Dirac (1902-1984).
Entries for the biography award are The Strangest Man The Hidden Life of
Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius, by Graham Farmelo, The Music Room by William Fiennes, Coda by Simon Gray, and Dancing to the Precipice by Caroline Moorehead.
Among others, in 1931 the physicist
Paul Dirac was led by his calculations to the conclusion that magnetic monopoles can exist at the end of tubes - called Dirac strings - that carry magnetic field.
Paul Dirac, the British Nobel laureate (who posited the existence of anti-matter and was scorned for what has become a cornerstone of modern physics) shared the same vision.
The first knowledge of the Wave Structure of Matter (WSM) began with the Greek philosophers such as Democritus and Pythagoras and were further developed in the last two centuries by William Clifford, Irwin Schroedinger, Albert Einstein and
Paul Dirac. These pioneers had to courage to leave the popular mainstream of physics and astronomy.
He came on the scene during the creation of quantum mechanics [1925-1927], and Born stands in the shadows of Werner Heisenberg,
Paul Dirac, Erwin Schrodinger, Wolfgang Pauli, and Niels Bohr.
4 Nobel Prize-winning quantum physicist
Paul Dirac was what nationality?
The material that powers the fictional starship Enterprise on TV was actually first predicted based on work done in 1928 by physicist
Paul Dirac. Though it has been the stuff of science fiction for years, antimatter really does exist.
Seguimos las pautas de la teoria cuantica relativista de
Paul Dirac a finales de los anos 20 donde emergieron formalmente conceptos claves como la antimateria y el espin de las particulas fundamentales; de la unificacion de las interacciones electromagnetica y nuclear debil por Weinberg, Glashow y Salam en los anos 60; del descubrimiento en los 70 del efecto de las ondas gravitacionales en un pulsar binario por Hulse y Taylor y de la radiacion de Hawking en los agujeros negros; y del interes tanto cuantico como cosmologico por la materia y energia oscuras.
Once when Oppenheimer was seeing
Paul Dirac off on a visit to China he gave him some books to read on the journey.
The ATHENA experiment, which is run by a collaboration of 39 scientists from nine different institutions world-wide, saw its first clear signals for antihydrogen in August - appropriately, the 100th anniversary of the birth of theorist
Paul Dirac who predicted the existence of antimatter in the late 1920s.