Paul Dirac Scientist

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM, FRS was an English theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. He held the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, was a member of the Center for Theoretical Studies, University of Miami, and spent the last decade of his life at Florida State University. Among other discoveries, he formulated the Dirac equation, which describes the behaviour of fermions, and predicted the existence of antimatter. Dirac shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1933 with Erwin Schrödinger, "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory."

Personal facts

Birth date	August 08, 1902
Birth name	Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
Birth place	Bristol
Date of death	October 20, 1984
Place of death	Tallahassee Florida
Education	University of Bristol University of Cambridge

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Scientist

doctoral advisor	Ralph H. Fowler
doctoral student	Fred Hoyle John Polkinghorne Dennis William Sciama Behram Kurşunoğlu Harish-Chandra Homi J. Bhabha
Field of study	Physics