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 ...

Lippincott is a freelance editor specializing in science. 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 ...

Paul Dirac, still in his 20s and already recognized as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in the world, has just finished giving a lecture to colleagues. Someone in the audience raises ...

Paul Dirac was one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics, and perhaps the greatest British theoretical physicist since Isaac Newton. After he predicted, with no clues from experiment, the existence of ...

THE STRANGEST MAN: THE HIDDEN LIFE OF PAUL DIRAC, MYSTIC OF THE ATOM Graham Farmelo Basic Books, 539 pp., $29.95 The British physicist Paul Dirac (1902-84), a winner of the Nobel Prize, is generally ...

In 1933, when Albert Einstein became the first staff member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, he was asked who he wanted to join him. The first name on his lips was a ...

Born in Bristol, England, in 1902, Paul Dirac was, after Einstein, the second most important theoretical physicist of the 20th century. He studied at Cambridge, where he wrote the first-ever ...

"Probably the greatest British theoretical physicist since Newton,” is how Stephen Hawking described Paul Dirac at his Westminster Abbey commemoration service in 1995. A pioneer of quantum mechanics ...

This is the story of Paul Dirac, "Britain's Einstein", an exceptionally strange man who spent his life studying the tiniest things he could imagine — atoms and the electrons, protons and neutrons they ...