biography
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Dirac, Paul A(drien) M(aurice)
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pronunciation:
[dirak]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1902–84)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Bristol, SW England, UK. He studied engineering at Bristol and physics at Cambridge, where he became professor of mathematics (1932–69). His main research was in the field of quantum mechanics, especially the incorporation of special relativity and development of the theory of electron spin. His proposal of the existence of ‘anti-matter’ - subatomic particles of opposite charge to those normally found - was confirmed by Anderson in 1932. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1933. He moved to the USA in 1968, and in 1971 became professor of physics at Florida State University, Tallahassee. |
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