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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was born at his parents' home in Bristol, England, on 8 August 1902, [43] and grew up in the Bishopston area of the city. [44] His father, Charles Adrien Ladislas Dirac, was an immigrant from Saint-Maurice, Switzerland, of French descent, [45] who worked in Bristol as a French teacher.
The Dirac Medal or Dirac prize can refer to different awards named in honour of the physics Nobel Laureate Paul Dirac. Dirac Medal (ICTP), awarded by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste; Dirac Medal (IOP), awarded by the Institute of Physics, UK
Shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics [bw] with J.H.D.Jensen and M.Goeppert-Mayer [329] Willard Libby: December 17, 1908 Grand Valley, United States September 8, 1980 Los Angeles, United States 1953, 1956, 1957, 1960 Won the 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. [330] Edwin Hubble: November 20, 1889 Marshfield, Missouri, United States September 28, 1953
The Paul Dirac Medal and Prize is a gold medal awarded annually by the Institute of Physics (Britain's and Ireland's main professional body for physicists) for "outstanding contributions to theoretical (including mathematical and computational) physics". [1]
In particle physics, the Dirac equation is a relativistic wave equation derived by British physicist Paul Dirac in 1928. In its free form , or including electromagnetic interactions, it describes all spin-1/2 massive particles , called "Dirac particles", such as electrons and quarks for which parity is a symmetry .
The Dirac Medal of the ICTP is given each year by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in honour of physicist Paul Dirac. The award, announced each year on 8 August (Dirac's birthday), was first awarded in 1985. [1] An international committee of distinguished scientists selects the winners from a list of nominated candidates.
The Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics is awarded by the University of New South Wales in Sydney, jointly with the Australian Institute of Physics on the occasion of the public Dirac Lecture. [19] The Lecture and the Medal commemorate the visit to the university in 1975 of Professor Dirac, who gave five lectures there.
The Dirac equation achieves the relativistic description of the wavefunction of an electron that Schrödinger failed to obtain. It predicts electron spin and led Dirac to predict the existence of the positron. He also pioneered the use of operator theory, including the influential bra–ket notation, as described in his famous 1930 textbook.