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Paul Dirac

1902 - 1984

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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac ( dih-RAK; 8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984) was an English theoretical physicist and mathematician who is considered to be one of the founders of quantum mechanics. Dirac laid the foundations for both quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory. He was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and a professor of physics at Florida State University. Dirac shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics with Erwin Schrödinger "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Dirac is the 67th most popular physicist (down from 35th in 2019), the 196th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 97th in 2019) and the 19th most popular British Physicist.

Paul Dirac is most famous for his discovery of the equation that predicted the existence of antimatter.

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Among physicists, Paul Dirac ranks 67 out of 851. Before him are Leo Szilard, Wolfgang Pauli, Andrei Sakharov, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Max Born, and Charles Glover Barkla. After him are Léon Foucault, Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., Philipp Lenard, Lev Landau, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, and Ludwig Boltzmann.

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Among people born in 1902, Paul Dirac ranks 10. Before him are Georgy Malenkov, Erik Erikson, Leni Riefenstahl, John Steinbeck, Carl Rogers, and Halldór Laxness. After him are Isaac Bashevis Singer, Eugene Wigner, Kurt Alder, Saud of Saudi Arabia, Fernand Braudel, and Alfred Kastler. Among people deceased in 1984, Paul Dirac ranks 6. Before him are Indira Gandhi, Michel Foucault, Yuri Andropov, Richard Burton, and Marvin Gaye. After him are François Truffaut, Truman Capote, James Mason, Alfred Kastler, Tigran Petrosian, and Mohamed Naguib.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Paul Dirac ranks 196 out of 8,785. Before him are Charles Glover Barkla (1877), William of Ockham (1285), Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover (1771), Maggie Smith (1934), Victoria, Princess Royal (1840), and John Napier (1550). After him are Robert Robinson (1886), Blackbeard (1680), Ian McKellen (1939), Eric Clapton (1945), Cat Stevens (1948), and Saint Patrick (385).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Paul Dirac ranks 19. Before him are William Gilbert (1544), Nevill Francis Mott (1905), David J. Thouless (1934), Brian Josephson (1940), Patrick Blackett (1897), and Charles Glover Barkla (1877). After him are James Chadwick (1891), C. F. Powell (1903), William Henry Bragg (1862), Thomas Young (1773), Peter Higgs (1929), and Roger Penrose (1931).

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