P. A. M. Dirac (1902–1984)
Auteur de Les Principes de la Mecanique Quantique
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Paul Dirac, a British theoretical physicist, was a central figure in the development of quantum electrodynamics. For example, he introduced important concepts, such as magnetic monopole and electron spin, and predicted the existence of antiparticles. Dirac was well known for his creativity as a afficher plus graduate student in the 1920s. After reading Werner Heisenberg's first paper on relativity in 1925, for example, he promptly devised a more general form of the theory. The next year, he formulated Wolfgang Pauli's exclusion principle in terms of quantum mechanics. Specifically, he formulated useful statistical rules for particles that obey the Pauli exclusion principle. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Cambridge University in 1926. Dirac's most important contribution occurred in 1928, when he joined special relativity to quantum theory. His theory of the electron permitted scientists to calculate its spin and magnetic moment and to predict the existence of positively charged electrons, or positrons. (Positrons were observed in 1932.) In 1933 Dirac shared the Nobel Prize in physics with Erwin Schrodinger for his theory of the electron and prediction of the positron. Dirac's theoretical considerations in predicting the positron were sufficiently general to apply to all particles. This constituted an argument for the existence of antimatter. In later years, Dirac worked on "large-number coincidences," or relationships that appear to exist between some cosmological constants. He also taught mathematics at Cambridge University from 1932 until 1969. From 1968, when he retired from Cambridge, until his death in 1984, Dirac was a professor at the University of Florida in Tallahassee. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de P. A. M. Dirac
Development of Quantum Theory: J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize Acceptance Speech (1971) 2 exemplaires
The prediction of antimatter (H.R. Crane lecture) 2 exemplaires
Paul Dirac 1 exemplaire
Principles of Quantum Mechanics (International Series of Monographs on Physics) by P. A. M. Dirac (1958-12-30) (1624) 1 exemplaire
Quantum Mechanics: A Dissertation 1 exemplaire
Developments in quantum elecrodynamics (Communications of the Dublin Institute for Advaced Studies, ser. A) 1 exemplaire
Quantum electrodynamics (Communications of the Dublin Institute for Advaced Studies, ser. A) 1 exemplaire
The evolution of the physicist's picture of nature 1 exemplaire
The evolution of our understanding of nature 1 exemplaire
The scientific work of Georges Lemaître (Pontificia Academia Scientiarvm. Commentarii, v. 2 no. 11) 1 exemplaire
The development of quantum mechanics: Conferenza Tenuta il 14 Aprile 1972 (Contributi del Centro linceo… 1 exemplaire
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- Nom légal
- Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice
- Autres noms
- Dirac, Paul
- Date de naissance
- 1902-08-08
- Date de décès
- 1984-10-20
- Lieu de sépulture
- Tallahassee, Florida, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Tallahassee, Florida, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Tallahassee, Florida, USA - Études
- University of Bristol
University of Cambridge (St. John's College) - Professions
- theoretical physicist
professor
mathematician - Prix et distinctions
- Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics, Cambridge
Nobel Prize (Physics ∙ 1933)
James Scott Prize Lectureship (1933-1938)
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