British theoretical physicist Paul Dirac was one of the most significant figures in the early days of quantum physics, who along with Erwin Schrödinger won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1933. But it ...

It’s hard to imagine a more formidable subject for a biographer. Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1902-84) was a pioneer of quantum theory in the 1920s and 1930s and fully as obscure and bizarre as that ...

In the autumn of 1925, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, a Cambridge University graduate student of very few words, astonished the world of physics with a remarkable paper on quantum mechanics. His ...

The Dirac equation is monumental in physics, encapsulating so beautifully, in relativistic terms, the behaviour of a spinning electron, or indeed of any particle that has half-integer spin (Milestone ...

Part 1 in our series on Quantum Field Theory. Paul Dirac’s insights into the nature of Quantum Mechanics laid the foundation for Quantum Field Theory and predicted the existence of anti-matter. Part 1 ...