Person Dirac; Paul Adrien Maurice (1902 - 1984) Dirac Paul Adrien Maurice 1902 - 1984 British Male Bristol, Gloucestershire, England 08/08/1902 19020808 Tallahassee, Florida, USA 20/10/1984 19841020

Quantum mechanics Relativity Cosmology Education: Cotham School, Bristol; BSc (Bristol); PhD (Camb) Career: Lecturer, University of Cambridge; Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, 1932-1969; Professor of Physics, Florida State University 1971-1984 Medals and prizes: Nobel Prize (Physics) 1933 Honours: OM 1973 Married Margit Wigner, sister of physicist Eugene Wigner, 1937 Medals and prizes: Royal Medal 1939; Copley Medal 1952 Lectures: Bakerian 1941 Fellow 15/05/1930 27 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DSB vol 17 pp 224-233 Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1986 vol 32 pp 137-185, plate, by R H Dalitz and Sir Rudolf Peierls References: Sir Fred Hoyle, 'The Achievement of Dirac', review of Helge S. Kragh, Dirac: A Scientific Biography in NR 1992 vol 46 pp 183-187 Anon, 'Visit of His Excellency the Soviet Ambassador, 19 November 1959' in NR 1959 vol 14 pp 160-162 R H Dalitz (ed), 'The collected works of P A M Dirac: 1924-1948' (Cambridge University Press, 1995) H Kragh, 'Dirac : A Scientific Biography' (Cambridge University Press 1991) B N Kursunoglu and E P Wigner (eds) 'Reminiscences about a great physicist : Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac' (Cambridge, 1987) B V Medvedev (ed) ' Paul Dirac and 20th century physics' (Russian) (Moscow 1990) N Mukunda , The life and work of P A M Dirac in 'Recent developments in theoretical physics (Singapore, 1987) A Pais, M Jacob, D I Olive and M F Atiyah, 'Paul Dirac : the man and his work' (Cambridge, 1998) J G Taylor (ed) 'Tributes to Paul Dirac, Cambridge, 1985' (Bristol, 1987) Michael Berry, 'Paul Dirac, the purest soul in physics', Physics World, February 1998 www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Dirac.html B Pippard, 'Euclid and other popular romances. Such silver currents: the story of William and Lucy Clifford 1845-1929, by M Chisholm' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 252-253 R Singh and F Riess, 'The nobel laureate Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman FRS and his contacts with the British Scientific community in a social and political context' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 47-64 P Fara, 'Lucasian Professors. From Newton to Hawking: a history of Cambridge University's Lucasian professors of mathematics, ed K C Knox and R Noakes' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 312-313 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 The Principles of Quantum Mechanics (1930); Quantum Electrodunamics (1943); Developments in Quantum Electrodynamics (1946) 8 Aug 1902 - 20 Oct 1984 NA6266 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/17350683 bf7cf01e-ac21-407e-8cf2-3d9d98cc5091