Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice

Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice (1902-84) English physicist. Dirac was one of the founders of quantum mechanics. In a remarkable series of papers in the second half of the 1920s he formulated quantum mechanics in a general way that incorporated the matrix mechanics of Werner HEISENBERG and the wave mechanics of Erwin SCHRODINGER as special cases. He shared the 1933 Nobel Prize for physics with Schrbdinger. 

The function S(x-b) was named after the F3nglish physicist Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1901-1984) in honor of his contributions to the development of quantum mechanics. 

The underlying physical laws for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known and the diflSculty is only that the exact application of these laws leads to equations much too complicated to be soluble. It therefore becomes desirable that approximate practical methods of applying quantum mechanics should be developed, which can lead to an explanation of complex atomic systems without too much computation. (Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1929) as cited in [39])... 

In 1930, the English physicist Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1902- ) had advanced theoretical... 

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1902-1984) was a British physicist, theoretician, and professor at universities in Cambridge, and then in Oxford. Dirac was very interested in on hiking and climbing. He used to practice before expeditions by climbing trees near Cambridge, in the black outfit in which always gave his... 

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1902-1984) British physicist Bristol, UK and Tallahassee, Rorida, USA. 

In the opening paragraph of his 1929 paper "Quantum Mechanics of Many-Electron Systems," Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac announced that ... 

No one can propose an actual, or even a mental, picture of a spinning electron. Quantum mechanics deals with objects of the microscopic world, objects that one cannot see or feel with human senses. The justification for the laws and formulas of quantum mechanics comes from agreement of the predicted quantities with the results of subtle experiments the necessity of spin emerged when it was observed that some energy splittings in the fine structure of atomic spectra could not be reproduced by equations which included only kinetic energy and electrostatic potential. Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac and Wolfgang Pauli led the way into this development and worked out the mathematical equations. They were awarded Nobel prizes in 1933 and 1945, respectively. 

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