Swiss mathematician | University of Zurich | Meierskappel: August 8, 2003 - January 26, 1953 | Maximilian Janisch | Meierskappel: August 8, 2003 - January 26, 1953
Paul Dirac
- Bristol: August 8, 1902 celebration
- Tallahassee: October 20, 1984 celebration


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Paul Dirac -
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United Kingdom -
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Paul Dirac -
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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac -
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celebration Date of birth
Bristol: August 8, 1902 -
deceased Rest in Peace
Tallahassee: October 20, 1984 -
language Official Website
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engineering Field of Work
- mathematics
- quantum mechanics
- theoretical physics
- quantum electrodynamics
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local_library teacher
- Ralph H. Fowler
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person_book Student
- Robert Oppenheimer
- Paul Weiss
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school Education
- University of Bristol
- Cotham School
- University of Cambridge
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trophy Awards & Honors
- Royal Medal (1939)
- Helmholtz Medal (1964)
- Fellow of the Royal Society (1930)
- J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize (1969)
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1933)
- Royal Society Bakerian Medal
- Copley Medal (1952)
- Bakerian Lecture (1941)
- Max Planck Medal (1952)
- doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1946)
- Order of Merit (1973)
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social_leaderboard Notable Works
- Complete Fermi–Dirac integral
- Dirac delta function
- Dirac equation
- Fermi–Dirac statistics
- Dirac comb
- Dirac spinor
- Dirac operator
- Dirac measure
- Dirac sea
- Dirac fermion
- Dirac large numbers hypothesis
- reduced Planck constant
- Dirac adjoint
- Kapitsa–Dirac effect
- Dirac bracket
- Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac force
- British theoretical physicist (1902–1984) | Royal Medal (1939), Helmholtz Medal (1964), Fellow of the Royal Society (1930), J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial