21. Paul_Dirac http//www.nndb.com/people/314/000072098/ Paul Dirac profile, NNDB; http//www.ictp.trieste.it/~sci_info/awards/Dirac/DiracMedal.html Dirac Medal of the http://copernicus.subdomain.de/Paul_Dirac

Suche: Main Page '''Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac''', ( August 8 October 20 ) was a British theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum physics Biography Paul Dirac was born in the English city of Bristol . His father, Charles Dirac, was an immigrant from the Valais Canton in Switzerland who taught French for a living. His mother was originally from Cornwall and the daughter of a mariner. Paul had an elder brother and an younger sister. His early family life appears to have been unhappy on account of his father's unusually strict and authoritarian nature, but he never publicly expressed his feelings on the subject. He was educated first at Bishop Primary School and later at Merchant Venturers Technical College. The latter was an institution, attached to the University of Bristol , that emphasized scientific subjects and modern languages (an unusual arrangement at a time when secondary education in Britain was still dedicated largely to the classics , and something for which Dirac would later express gratitude). Dirac studied electrical engineering at the University of Bristol , completing his degree in 1921. After working briefly as an engineer, Dirac decided that his true calling lay in the mathematical sciences. He completed a degree in

22. Quantum Theory: Paul Dirac Paul Dirac on Quantum Theory Discussion of quotes on the Evolution of Quantum Theory from Paul Dirac. http://www.spaceandmotion.com/quantum-theory-paul-dirac-quotes.htm

SEARCH Summary Simple Science ... Email Quantum Theory: Paul Dirac Paul Dirac on Quantum Theory: Discussion of quotes on the Evolution of Quantum Theory from Paul Dirac. Explaining Dirac's theoretical discovery of Positron as an Opposite phase Spherical Standing Wave (thus explaining matter / antimatter annihilation) Max Planck Quantum Physics Discrete Light Quanta Werner Heisenberg ... Important Information about these Physics Pages on Quantum Theory / Wave Mechanics (please read first) Note: Above images link to short summary pages (simple explanation of central ideas), text links to more detailed pages. Quantum Theory: Paul Dirac (1902 - 1984) When one looks back over the development of physics, one sees that it can be pictured as a rather steady development with many small steps and superposed on that a number of big jumps. These big jumps usually consist in overcoming a prejudice...And then a physicist has to replace this prejudice by something more precise, and leading to some entirely new conception of nature. (Paul Dirac, Quantum Theory) This statistical interpretation is now universally accepted as the best possible interpretation for quantum mechanics / quantum theory, even though many people are unhappy with it. People had got used to the determinism of the last century, where the present determines the future completely, and they now have to get used to a different situation in which the present only gives one information of a statistical nature about the future. A good many people find this unpleasant; Einstein has always objected to it. The way he expressed it was: "The good God does not play with dice". Schroedinger also did not like the statistical interpretation and tried for many years to find an interpretation involving determinism for his waves.

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26. AWVerlag  -  Dienstleistungen  -  Referenzliste  -  D dirac paul Adrien Maurice, Quantised Singularities in the Electromagnetic Field , Proceedings of the London Royal Society A 133 (1931) 6072 http://www.info.global-scaling-verein.de/Ref/ReferenzD.htm

Zurück D Dameron David, "Flux Leakage Tests for the Marinov Motor", Apeiron Das Gupta A. K., "Unipolar Maschines. Association of the Magnetic Field with the Field-Producing Magnet", American Journal of Physics Daw Harold A., „Coriolis lecture demonstration", American Journal of Physics /11 (November 1987) 1010-1014 Derbin A.V., S.V. Bakhlanov, A.I. Egorov, V.N. Muratova, "Comment on the paper ‘Realization of discrete states during fluctuations in macroscopic processes’", Physics-Uspekhi Dickson L. E., „On Quaternions and their Generalization and the History of the Eight Square Theorem", Annals of Mathematics nd Series Dirac Paul Adrien Maurice, "The Quantum Theory of the Emission and Absorption of Radiation", Proceedings of the London Royal Society A Dirac Paul Adrien Maurice, "A Theory of Electrons and Protons", Proceedings of the London Royal Society A Dirac Paul Adrien Maurice, "Quantised Singularities in the Electromagnetic Field", Proceedings of the London Royal Society A Dirac Paul Adrien Maurice, "Classical theory of radiating electrons"

27. Encyclopedia: Fermi-Dirac Statistics Paul Adrien Maurice dirac paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, (August 8, 1902 – October 20, 1984) was a British theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Fermi_Dirac-statistics

Supporter Benefits Signup Login Sources ... Pies Related Articles People who viewed "Fermi-Dirac statistics" also viewed: Bose_Einstein statistics Derivation of the partition function Maxwell_Boltzmann statistics Fermi energy ... Lie group What's new? Our next offering Latest newsletter Student area Lesson plans Recent Updates Pesher Percy the Small Engine Pee_wee's Playhouse Paul Stanley ... More Recent Articles Top Graphs Richest Most Murderous Most Taxed Most Populous ... More Stats Encyclopedia: Fermi-Dirac statistics Updated 29 days 6 hours 9 minutes ago. Other descriptions of Fermi-Dirac statistics Fermi-Dirac statistics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Fermi-Dirac distribution as a function of ε/μ plotted for 4 different temperatures. Occupancy transitions are smoother at higher temperatures. Fermi-Dirac distribution as a function of temperature. More states are occupied at higher temperatures. Fermi-Dirac distribution as a function of ε. High energy states are less probable. Or, low energy states are more probable. In statistical mechanics Fermi Dirac statistics determines the statistical distribution of fermions over the energy states for a system in thermal equilibrium. In other words, it is a probability of a given energy level to be occupied by a fermion. Fermions are particles which are

28. Science Jokes:Paul Dirac Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (19021984), British/Swiss physicist. He received the Nobel prize in Physics in 1933 for his work on quantum mechanics http://www.xs4all.nl/~jcdverha/scijokes/Dirac.html

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29. Physics 1933 Awarded jointly to Erwin Schrödinger and paul Adrien Maurice dirac for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory. http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1933/

HOME SITE HELP ABOUT SEARCH ... EDUCATIONAL The Nobel Prize in Physics 1933 "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory" Erwin Schrödinger Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac 1/2 of the prize 1/2 of the prize Austria United Kingdom Berlin University Berlin, Germany University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom b. 1887 d. 1961 b. 1902 d. 1984 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1933 Presentation Speech Biography Nobel Lecture ... Other Resources The 1933 Prize in: Physics Chemistry Physiology or Medicine Literature ... Peace Find a Laureate: Nobelprize.org Get to know all 770 Prize Winners! » Games and Simulations » SITE FEEDBACK ... TELL A FRIEND Last modified April 14, 2005

30. Paul A.M. Dirac - Biography Includes a brief biography and a copy of his Nobel lecture. http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1933/dirac-bio.html

HOME SITE HELP ABOUT SEARCH ... EDUCATIONAL Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was born on 8th August, 1902, at Bristol, England, his father being Swiss and his mother English. He was educated at the Merchant Venturer's Secondary School, Bristol, then went on to Bristol University. Here, he studied electrical engineering, obtaining the B.Sc. (Engineering) degree in 1921. He then studied mathematics for two years at Bristol University, later going on to St.John's College, Cambridge, as a research student in mathematics. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1926. The following year he became a Fellow of St.John's College and, in 1932, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge. Dirac's work has been concerned with the mathematical and theoretical aspects of quantum mechanics. He began work on the new quantum mechanics as soon as it was introduced by Heisenberg in 1928 - independently producing a mathematical equivalent which consisted essentially of a noncommutative algebra for calculating atomic properties - and wrote a series of papers on the subject, published mainly in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, leading up to his relativistic theory of the electron (1928) and the theory of holes (1930). This latter theory required the existence of a positive particle having the same mass and charge as the known (negative) electron. This, the positron was discovered experimentally at a later date (1932) by

31. Dirac Biography of paul dirac (19021984) paul dirac s father was Charles Adrien Ladislas dirac and his mother was Florence Hannah Holten. Charles dirac was a http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Dirac.html

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac Born: 8 Aug 1902 in Bristol, England Died: 20 Oct 1984 in Tallahassee, Florida, USA Click the picture above to see six larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Version for printing Paul Dirac 's father was Charles Adrien Ladislas Dirac and his mother was Florence Hannah Holten. Charles Dirac was a Swiss citizen born in Monthey, in the Valais Canton of Switzerland, while his mother came from Cornwall in England. Charles had been educated at the University of Geneva, then came to England in around 1888 and taught French in Bristol. There he met Florence, whose father had moved to Bristol as Master Mariner on a Bristol ship, when she was working in the library there. Charles and Florence married in 1899 and they moved into a house in Bishopston, Bristol, which they named Monthey after the town of Charles's birth. By this time Charles was teaching French at the secondary school attached to the Merchant Venturers Technical College in Bristol. Paul was one of three children, his older brother being Reginald Charles Felix Dirac and his younger sister being Beatrice Isabelle Marguerite Walla Dirac. Paul had a very strict family upbringing. His father insisted that only French be spoken at the dinner table and, as a result, Paul was the only one to eat with his father in the dining room. Paul's father was so strict with his sons that both were alienated and Paul was brought up in a somewhat unhappy home.

32. References For Dirac References for the biography of paul dirac. AO Barut and A van der Merwe, paul dirac on his eightieth birthday, Found. Phys. 13 (2) (1983), 187188. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/References/Dirac.html

References for Paul Dirac Version for printing Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. Obituary in The Times available on the Web Books: B L Cline, The Questioners: Physicists and the Quantum Theory R H Dalitz (ed.), The collected works of P A M Dirac : 1924-1948 (Cambridge, 1995). H Kragh, Dirac : A Scientific Biography (Cambridge, 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, 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). Articles: A O Barut and A van der Merwe, Paul Dirac on his eightieth birthday, Found. Phys. S D'Agostino, Mathematics and physics in the ideas of P A M Dirac, Rend. Accad. Naz. Sci. XL Mem. Sci. Fis. Natur. R H Dalitz, A biographical sketch of the life of Professor P A M Dirac, OM, FRS, in J G Taylor (ed.), Tributes to Paul Dirac, Cambridge, 1985

33. Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice (1902-1984) -- From Eric Weisstein's World Of Scienti Reminiscences about a Great Physicist paul Adrien Maurice dirac. Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1987. © Eric W. Weisstein http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Dirac.html

Branch of Science Physicists Nationality English ... Physics Prize Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice (1902-1984) English physicist whose calculations predicted that particles should exist with negative energies. This led him to suggest that the electron had an " antiparticle " This antielectron was discovered subsequently by Carl Anderson in 1932, and came to be called the positron Dirac also developed a tensor version of the known as the Dirac equation which is relativistically correct. For his work on antiparticles and wave mechanics, he received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1933. Anderson (Carl) Feynman Schwinger Tomonaga Additional biographies: MacTutor (St. Andrews) Bonn References Dirac, P. A. M. General Theory of Relativity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. Dirac, P. A. M. History of Twentieth Century Physics. Dirac, P. A. M. Quantum Mechanics, 4th ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1958. Kragh, H. Dirac: A Scientific Biography. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Kragh, H. "Dirac."

34. Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac Winner Of The 1933 Nobel Prize In Physics paul Adrien Maurice dirac, a Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics, at the Nobel Prize Internet Archive. http://almaz.com/nobel/physics/1933b.html

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35. Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 dirac, paul Adrien Maurice. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 200105. http://www.bartleby.com/65/di/Dirac-Pa.html

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Dirac’s "Coincidences" Sixty Years On Robert A. J. Matthews Abstract : Sixty years ago, the existence of "coincidences" between dimensionless ratios of sub-atomic and cosmological quantities prompted Dirac to develop a cosmological model based on a suspected connection between physics at the quantum and cosmic levels. While his original proposal has not stood the test of time, recent developments linking cosmology to quantum vacuum processes may yet breathe new life into Dirac’s intriguing hypothesis. This year marks the 60th anniversary of Paul Dirac’s paper A new basis for cosmology , outlining a new cosmological model based on the existence of a set of extraordinary "coincidences" in cosmic and atomic physics (Dirac 1938). In his paper, Dirac noted that, for some unexplained reason, the ratio of the electrostatic to gravitational force between an electron and a proton is roughly equal to the age of the universe divided by an elementary time constant, implying that hc/Gm p m e ~ m p c where h is Planck’s constant, c the speed of light, G the Newtonian gravitational constant, m e and m p the masses of the electron and proton respectively, and H is the cosmic Hubble parameter. On rearrangement (1) leads to the intriguing implication that the expansion rate of the universe, as measured by H, is linked to sub-atomic quantities via a relationship of the form

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A larger image of any photo may be purchased. Click on an image to place an order. For more information visit our home page Hannes Alfven, Felix Bloch, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, Polykarp Kusch, Will Description shirt, suit, standing; taken in Lindau, June 1979. Back row, L-R: Alfven, Bloch, Lamb, Wigner, Rabi, Ting, ? Kurtorouch, Kusch; Front row, L-R: Segre, Giaever, Esaki, Schwinger, Dirac. Item ID Alfven Hannes D1 Arthur Holly Compton, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Werner Heisenberg, Friedrich Hund, Robert Andrews M Description L-R: Compton, Heisenberg, Unidentified, Dirac, Unidentified, Millikan, Unidentified, Hund; Unidentified; University of Chicago; standing; outdoors; suit Item ID Compton E4 Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac Description old age; full-face; suit Item ID Dirac A2 Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac Description middle age; three-quarter view; suit Item ID Dirac A5a Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac Description middle age; profile; suit; standing Item ID Dirac B1 Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac Description old age; profile; suit; gesturing; blackboard; writing; Yeshiva University

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Paul A. M. Dirac One of the founders of quantum mechanics, known as a man of few words. He contributed greatly to constructing relativistic quantum electrodynamics, combining both Einstein's relativity and quantum mechanics. In this process, he stumbled over the problem of negative energy of an electron which can be derived from his "spin 1/2 Dirac equation". Eventually, this difficulty led him to predict the existence of "positron", the anti-particle of electron (and, every particle has its own anti-particle, and matter and anti-matter form a pair, although we mostly encounter matter in this world). This prediction was experimentally confirmed later (1932). Dirac shared the Nobel physics prize with Schroedinger in 1933. The preceding discovery changed the concept of "vacuum" in physics. It is not a state of emptiness, but a state of quantum fluctuation-an electron may materialize together with a positron out of nothing, and soon annihilate into nothingness again; the inherent probabilistic character of quantum mechanics allows this. BACK TO DIRAC PICTURE BACK TO GALLERY INDEX Last modified March 3, 2005. (c) Soshichi Uchii

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Home U.S. People Word Wise ... Homework Center Fact Monster Favorites 2006 TFK Almanac Quiz: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory SpongeBob Lemony Snicket ... Fantasy Books Reference Desk Atlas Almanacs Dictionary Encyclopedia ... Encyclopedia Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice Pronunciation Key Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice , English physicist. He was educated at the Univ. of Bristol and St. John's College, Cambridge, and became professor of mathematics at Cambridge in 1932. In 1928, Dirac published a version of quantum mechanics that took into account the theory of relativity (see quantum theory ). One consequence of his theory was the prediction of negative energy states for the electron, implying the existence of an antiparticle The Principles of Quantum Mechanics (1930, 4th ed. 1958). The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Page Tools: Cite Print See more Encyclopedia articles on: Physics: Biographies AD AD AD ADS Business Cards Link to Fact Monster Add Fact Monster search ... Privacy Brought to you by: Information Please

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