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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.
Sheila Tinney, Paul Dirac, and other physicists and mathematicians at DIAS in 1942. Sheila Christina Power was the fourth of six children born in Galway city to Michael Power [a.k.a. Mícheál de Paor, originally from rural Kilkenny, Chair of Mathematics at University College Galway (UCG) from 1912 to 1955] and Christina Cunniffe (who died in childbirth when Sheila was 12).
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius is a 2009 biography of quantum physicist Paul Dirac written by British physicist and author, Graham Farmelo, and published by Faber and Faber. The book won the Biography Award at the 2009 Costa Book Awards, [1] and the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology. [2]
Cheryl Hines is celebrating her 59th birthday with family. “Me and my girls ,” Hines wrote via Instagram Story on Saturday, September 21, sharing a photo with daughter Catherine and ...
In 2002, Paul married Heather Mills, and the two welcomed a baby girl weighing 7 pounds a year later in London, the BBC reported. “She is a little beauty and we couldn’t be prouder,” the ...
Paul McCartney is a family man through and through. The Beatles icon, who has been married three times, has welcomed five children and eight grandchildren since his rise to stardom began in the 1960s.
Stella Nina McCartney CBE (born 13 September 1971) is an English fashion designer.She is a daughter of British singer-songwriter Paul McCartney and the American photographer and animals rights activist Linda McCartney. [1]
(shared with English physicist Paul Dirac) 1951 Ernest Walton: 6 October 1903 in Dungarvan, County Waterford: 25 June 1995 in Belfast: Physics "for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles." [5] (shared with English physicist John Cockcroft) 1969: Samuel Beckett: 13 April 1906 in ...