Paul Dirac - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1933
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Paul Dirac

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1933
for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory
Together with: Erwin Schrödinger
Citizenship
Switzerland Switzerland United Kingdom United Kingdom
Languages
English, French
date of birth
8/8/1902
place of birth
Bristol
date of death
10/20/1984
place of death
Tallahassee
Lived
82 years

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member of
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1961
  • Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
    • start time: 1962
  • French Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1963
  • Academy of Sciences of Turin
    • start time: 1/10/1951
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 1950
  • Royal Society of Edinburgh
    • start time: 1946
  • Institut de France
    • start time: 1946
  • American Physical Society
    • start time: 1948
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1949
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
    • start time: 1931
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 5/15/1930
  • Academy of Sciences of Lisbon
    • start time: 1953
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 8/22/1958
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
    • start time: 1958
  • Royal Irish Academy
    • start time: 1944
  • Chinese Physical Society
    • start time: 1943
  • Indian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1939
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1938
employer
  • Florida State University
    • start time: 1969
    • end time: 1984
  • University of Cambridge
    • end time: 1969
    • start time: 1932
  • University of Miami
    • start time: 1969
    • end time: 1972
  • St John's College
    • end time: 1932
    • start time: 1927
position held
  • Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
    • end time: 1969
    • start time: 1932
educated at
  • University of Bristol
    • start time: 1918
    • end time: 1923
  • University of Cambridge
    • start time: 1923
    • end time: 1926
  • Cotham School
doctoral student
  • Roger J. N. Phillips
    • end time: 1955
  • Harish-Chandra
  • Fred Hoyle
  • Dennis W. Sciama
  • Homi Jehangir Bhabha
  • Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer
  • John Polkinghorne
  • Richard John Eden
  • Andrew Lees
occupation
  • scientist
  • teacher
  • engineer
  • mathematician
  • professor
  • physicist
  • educator
  • academic
  • theoretical physicist
field of work
  • quantum electrodynamics
  • mathematics
  • quantum mechanics
  • theoretical physics
notable work
  • Dirac sea
  • Dirac measure
  • Dirac fermion
  • Dirac large numbers hypothesis
  • Complete Fermi–Dirac integral
  • Dirac delta function
  • reduced Planck constant
  • Dirac equation
  • Fermi–Dirac statistics
  • Dirac adjoint
  • Dirac comb
  • Kapitsa–Dirac effect
  • Dirac bracket
  • Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac force
  • Dirac spinor
  • Dirac operator
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