61. Untitled Born in 1902 in Bristol, England, paul adrien maurice dirac became known fields, laterknown as the dirac Equation, which brought him the nobel Prize in http://www.fsu.edu/~fstime/FS-Times/Volume1/Issue1/Dirac.html

Dirac takes his place next to Isaac Newton By Browning Brooks FSU Communications Group The late Paul Dirac, the father of modern physics and Florida State University's most famous professor, will be memorialized at Westminster Abbey with a two-foot square stone that will touch the western edge of Sir Isaac Newton's grave. Dirac was entitled to be buried at Westminster Abbey, according to FSU Dean of Faculties Steve Edwards, but he chose to be buried in Tallahassee's Roselawn Cemetery. His widow, Margit, still lives in Tallahassee. "We were deeply honored when he chose to be buried in Tallahassee rather than there," Edwards said. "The memorial in the abbey is in place of that." The stone, of Burlington green slate from the Lake District of England, will be in the choir area of the abbey, a spot inaccessible but visible to the public. Choirboys will be required to walk reverently around the Dirac stone and other nearby memorials to English physicists, such as Lord Kelvin and Michael Faraday. "No other faculty member from FSU has been buried or memorialized in Westminster Abbey," said FSU Physicist Joe Lannutti, associate vice president for research. "The fact that his memorial will be in such a sacred part of the abbey sends a message. They think pretty highly of their scientists."

62. Phys Nobel List Translate this page Selective List of nobel Prize Winners in Physics and Chemistry. Mills Purcell 1935James Chadwick 1933 Erwin Schrödinger, paul adrien maurice dirac 1932 Werner http://bengal.missouri.edu/~kosztini/courses/phys215-03/Phys_Nobel_List.html

Selective List of Nobel Prize Winners in Physics and Chemistry Physics Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, Carl E. Wieman Zhores I. Alferov, Herbert Kroemer, Jack S. Kilby Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, William D. Phillips ... Ernest Rutherford

63. Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov c«ng tr×nh nµy «ng ®­îc gi¶i th­ëng nobel n¨m and EP Wigner (eds.), Reminiscencesabout a great physicist paul adrien maurice dirac (Cambridge, 1987 http://www.hcm.fpt.vn/Chuyen_de/Mathematics/history-n/Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac.

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac Ngµy sinh: 8-8-1902 t¹i Bristol, Gloucestershire, Anh Ngµy mÊt: 20-10-1984 t¹i Tallahassee, Florida, Mü aul Dirac ®­îc biÕt ®Õn nh­ ng­êi ®· n©ng c¬ häc l­îng tö lªn thµnh mét lý thuyÕt hoµn chØnh. ¤ng häc ngµnh kü s­ ®iÖn tö t¹i tr­êng §HTH Bristol tr­íc khi nghiªn cøu to¸n häc t¹i tr­êng §¹i häc Cambridge. §ãng gãp ®Çu tiªn cña «ng cho lý thuyÕt l­îng tö lµ bµi b¸o ®­îc viÕt vµo n¨m 1925. ¤ng c«ng bè Nh÷ng nguyªn lý cña c¬ häc l­îng tö vµo n¨m 1930 vµ víi c«ng tr×nh nµy «ng ®­îc gi¶i th­ëng Nobel n¨m 1933. Dirac ®­îc cö lµm gi¸o s­ to¸n t¹i §HTH Cambridge n¨m 1932, c­¬ng vÞ mµ «ng ®· n¾m gi÷ suèt 37 n¨m. ¤ng trë thµnh thµnh viªn cña Héi khoa häc Hoµng gia n¨m 1930, ®­îc tÆng th­ëng Huy ch­¬ng cña Héi n¨m 1939 vµ Héi khoa häc Hoµng gia ®· trao tÆng «ng huy ch­¬ng Copley vµo n¨m 1952:- ... ®Ó ghi nhËn nh÷ng ®ãng gãp to lín cña «ng cho lý thuyÕt chuyÓn ®éng t­¬ng ®èi cña ph©n tö trong c¬ häc l­îng tö. N¨m 1971 Dirac ®­îc cö lµm gi¸o s­ vËt lý t¹i tr­êng §HTH Florida vµ ®­îc th­ëng Huy ch­¬ng c«ng tr¹ng vµo n¨m 1973.

64. P. A. M. Dirac (1902-1984) Idén emlékeznek meg a világ fizikusai (és talán mások is) a 100 éveszületett paul adrien maurice dirac nobeldíjas angol fizikusról. http://www.komal.hu/cikkek/dirac/dirac.h.shtml

Rendelje meg a KöMaL-t! P. A. M. Dirac (1902-1984) Idén emlékeznek meg a világ fizikusai (és talán mások is) a 100 éve született Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac Nobel-díjas angol fizikusról. Diracot nemcsak a fizikai Nobel-díj, no meg a rokonság kötötte össze Wigner Jenõvel (az õ húgát vette feleségül, örökbefogadott fia, Dirac Gábor még feladatot is tûzött ki a KöMaL-ban), hanem hasonló ,,ízlésük'' is: mindketten nagyon nagyra tartották a matematikai szépség szerepét a fizikai elméletekben. Dirac alkotta meg - többek között - az elektron relativisztikus hullámegyenletét, õ jósolta meg az antirészecskék létezését, és õ dolgozta ki az elektromágneses sugárzások kvantumelméletét is. Emlékét három - pontversenyen kívüli - feladvánnyal idézzük fel. 1. Hol készült a fénykép? 2. Mit fejez ki az emlékkövön látható furcsa egyenlet? 3. Vajon hogyan oldotta meg Dirac - állítólag fejben - az alábbi játékos matematikai feladatot, vagy ha nem is igaz ez a ,,legenda'', miért éppen az õ nevéhez kapcsolja az utókor ezt az egyszerûségében lenyûgözõ megoldást? Hét ember elmegy kókuszdiót gyûjteni. Találnak is jó sokat, de rájukesteledik, így az osztozkodást reggelre hagyva lefekszenek aludni. Éjszaka az egyikük felébred, s nem bízván a társaiban egymaga akarja 7 részre osztani a dió-kupacot. Ezt 1 maradékkal meg is tudja tenni. Az ,,egyheted'' részt eldugja, a maradékot a fa tetején figyelõ majomnak dobja, s visszafekszik aludni. Az éjszaka során mind a 6 társa egymás után ugyanígy jár el (mindig 1 dió marad), s reggel - mintha éjszaka mi sem történt volna - közösen is elosztják a kupacot (s az 1 maradékot a majomnak adják). Legalább hány diót gyûjtöttek összesen?

65. Dirac Centennial Celebration paul adrien maurice dirac (August 8th 1902 October 20th 1984) was one of diracspent most of his career in the He was awarded the nobel Prize together with http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/strings02/dirac.html

portrait by R. Tollast, 1963; reproduced by permission of the Master and Fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge) Saturday July 20th 2002 Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge Public lectures: Monica Dirac "Paul Dirac - My Father" Edward Witten "The Search for Supersymmetry" Sir Michael Atiyah "The Mystery of Spin" Stephen Hawking Peter Goddard "Beauty in the Equations: Aspects of Dirac's Life and Work" Admission will be free. Reservations should be made by contacting: Dirac Centennial Celebration, DAMTP/CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA. email: dirac@damtp.cam.ac.uk ; tel: 01223 765000. Please note that reservations will only be guaranteed until 2:10pm. There will be a small exhibition open to the public in St John's College between July 15th and July 20th 2002 commemorating the life of Dirac.

66. Glossary dirac, paul adrien maurice British physicist (19021984). He electron).He shared the nobel Prize for physics in 1933 with E.Schrödinger. http://livefromcern.web.cern.ch/livefromcern/antimatter/glossary.html

Acceleration : the process which consists of giving energy to a particle beam. This is achieved by the radio-frequency (RF) cavities Antiproton The antimatter equivalent of the proton, with the same mass but opposite charge. Atomic energy levels The possible energy of electronic orbitals in an atom are restricted to well-defined and discrete values. They are called the "energy levels of the atom". Their value is measured relative to the energy required to remove an electron, which is called the ionization potential of the atom Beam : a collection of particles traveling in an accelerator, storage ring, or transfer line. Bubble Chamber A detector filled with a liquid close to its boiling point, where the ionizing particles' trajectories materialize in the form of tracks made of bubbles. Cloud Chamber A detector filled with a gas close to its condensation point, where the ionizing particles' trajectories materialize in the form of tracks made of droplets. Cooling By analogy with the kinetic theory of gases where heat is equivalent to disorder, the term "cooling" designates the reduction of the beam's transverse dimensions and energy spread. Different techniques can be used to this effect.

67. Nobelova Cena Za Fyziku Venkata Raman, 1931 penežní cena byla vložena do zvláštního fondu, 1932Werner Heisenberg, 1933 paul adrien maurice dirac, Erwin Schrödinger, 1934 http://www.converter.cz/nobel.htm

Nobelova cena za fyziku Domovská stránka Nobelova cena Laureáti Nobelovy ceny za fyziku Nobelova cena za fyziku a její laureáti. U nìkterých fyzikù je dostupný jejich životopis. Dostupné je také za co Nobelovu cenu fyzici získali Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Hendrik Antoon Lorentz Pieter Zeeman ... Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard , 1906 Sir Joseph John Thomson, 1907 Albert Abraham Michelson , 1908 Gabriel Lippmann, 1909 Guglielmo Marchese Marconi, Carl Ferdinand Braun Johannes Diderik van der Waals Wilhelm Carl Werner Wien , 1912 Nils Gustaff Dalén, 1913 Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes, 1914 Max Theodor Felix von Laue, 1915 Sir William Henry Bragg, Sir William Lawrence Bragg, 1916 penìžní cena byla vložena do zvláštního fondu, 1917 Charles Glover Barkla, 1918 Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck , 1919 Johannes Stark Charles Edouard Guillaume, 1921 Albert Einstein Niels Bohr , 1923 Robert Andrews Millikan, 1924 Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn , 1925 James Franck, Gustav Hertz , 1926 Jean Baptiste Perrin, 1927 Arthur Holly Compton, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, 1928 Sir Owen Williams Richardson, 1929 Louis Victor de Broglie Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, 1931 penìžní cena byla vložena do zvláštního fondu, 1932

68. Physics Nobel Laureates 1925 - 1949 The first nobel prize in physics was awarded to Wilhelm Röntgen in 1901. dirac,paul adrien maurice, Great Britain, Cambridge University, * 1902, + 1984 http://www1.physik.tu-muenchen.de/~gammel/matpack/html/Chronics/physics_laureate

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien Physics 1925 The prize for 1924: SIEGBAHN, KARL MANNE GEORG, Sweden, Uppsala University, "for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy". The prize for 1925: Reserved. Physics 1926 The prize for 1925 was awarded jointly to: FRANCK, JAMES, Germany, Goettingen University, + 1964; and HERTZ, GUSTAV, Germany, Halle University, "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom". The prize for 1926: PERRIN, JEAN BAPTISTE, France, Sorbonne University, Paris, "for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium". Physics 1927 The prize was divided equally between: COMPTON, ARTHUR HOLLY, U.S.A., Chicago University, "for his discovery of the effect named after him"; and WILSON, CHARLES THOMSON REES, Great Britain, Cambridge University, * 1869 (in Glencorse, Scotland), "for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour". Physics 1928 Reserved.

69. Dirac paul adrien maurice dirac. paul dirac's father was Charles adrien Ladislas dirac andhis this meeting were published in Tributes to paul dirac, Cambridge, 1985 http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Dirac.html

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac Born: 8 Aug 1902 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England Died: 20 Oct 1984 in Tallahassee, Florida, USA Click the picture above to see three larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Paul Dirac 's father was Charles Adrien Ladislas Dirac and his mother was Florence Hannah Holten. Charles Dirac was a Swiss citizen born in Monthey, Valais while his mother came from Cornwall in England. Charles had been educated at the University of Geneva, then came to England in around 1888 and taught French in Bristol. There he met Florence, whose father had moved to Bristol as Master Mariner on a Bristol ship, when she was working in the library there. Charles and Florence married in 1899 and they moved into a house in Bishopston, Bristol which they named Monthey after the town of Charles's birth. By this time Charles was teaching French at the secondary school attached to the Merchant Venturers Technical College in Bristol. Paul was one of three children, his older brother being Reginald Charles Felix Dirac and his younger sister being Beatrice Isabelle Marguerite Walla Dirac. Paul had a very strict family upbringing. His father insisted that only French be spoken at the dinner table and, as a result, Paul was the only one to eat with his father in the dining room. Paul's father was so strict with his sons that both were alienated and Paul was brought up in a somewhat unhappy home.

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Centenário do nascimento de Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac Nascido a 8 de Agosto de 1902 em Bristol, Gloucestershire, Inglaterra Falecido am 20 Outubro de 1984 em Tallahassee, Florida, USA Paul Dirac 's father was Charles Adrien Ladislas Dirac and his mother was Florence Hannah Holten. Charles Dirac was a Swiss citizen born in Monthey, Valais while his mother came from Cornwall in England. Charles had been educated at the University of Geneva, then came to England in around 1888 and taught French in Bristol. There he met Florence, whose father had moved to Bristol as Master Mariner on a Bristol ship, when she was working in the library there. Charles and Florence married in 1899 and they moved into a house in Bishopston, Bristol which they named Monthey after the town of Charles's birth. By this time Charles was teaching French at the secondary school attached to the Merchant Venturers Technical College in Bristol. Paul was one of three children, his older brother being Reginald Charles Felix Dirac and his younger sister being Beatrice Isabelle Marguerite Walla Dirac. Paul had a very strict family upbringing. His father insisted that only French be spoken at the dinner table and, as a result, Paul was the only one to eat with his father in the dining room. Paul's father was so strict with his sons that both were alienated and Paul was brought up in a somewhat unhappy home.

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Centenário do nascimento de Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac Nascido a 8 de Agosto de 1902 em Bristol, Gloucestershire, Inglaterra Falecido am 20 Outubro de 1984 em Tallahassee, Florida, USA Paul Dirac teve dois irmãos, sendo Paul o do meio. O ambiente familiar era bastante estricto devido à severidade de seu pai, Charles Adrien Ladislas Dirac. A primeira escola que frequentou, foi a Escola Primária de Bishop onde começou a demonstrar a sua grande aptidão para a matemática. Aos 12 anos, entrou para a escola secundária onde seu pai lecionava, e que fazia parte do Merchant Venturers Technical College. Por esta altura começou a 1ª Guerra Mundial, que veio trazer algumas "vantagens" para Dirac. Uma vez que os rapazes mais velhos tinham que se alistar no exército, os laboratórios e outras instalações passaram a estar mais disponíveis. O próprio Dirac, aos treze anos, escreveu: "The Merchant Venturers was an excellent school for science and modern languages. There was no Latin or Greek, something of which I was rather glad, because I did not appreciate the value of old cultures. I consider myself very lucky in having been able to attend the school. ... I was rushed through the lower forms, and was introduced at an especially early age to the basis of mathematics, physics and chemistry in the higher forms. In mathematics I was studying from books which mostly were ahead of the rest of the class. This rapid advancement was a great help to me in my latter career."

72. Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice dirac, paul adrien maurice (19021984). British predictions. He shared the NobelPrize for Physics 1933 with Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger. http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/D/Dirac/1.html

Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was born and educated in Bristol and from 1923 at Cambridge, where he was professor of mathematics 1932-69. From 1971 he was professor of physics at Florida State University. In 1928 Dirac formulated the relativistic theory of the electron. The model was able to describe many quantitative aspects of the electron, including such properties as the half-quantum spin and magnetic moment, and introduced the first antiparticle. Dirac noticed that those particles with half-integral spins obeyed statistical rules different from the other particles. For these particles, Dirac worked out the statistics, now called Fermi-Dirac statistics because Italian physicist Enrico Fermi had done very similar work. These are used, for example, to determine the distribution of electrons at different energy levels. Dirac also worked on the large-number hypothesis. This deals with pure, dimensionless numbers, such as the ratio of the electrical and gravitational forces between an electron and a proton, which is 1039.

73. Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac Micro-biography dirac, paul adrien maurice, Date and Place of Birth, 8 August 1902. Bristol, England.Parents, Charles adrien Ladislas dirac. Florence Hannah Holten, http://m2.ph.man.ac.uk/livarch/biogs/Dirac.biog.html

DIRAC, Paul Adrien Maurice Date and Place of Birth 8 August 1902. Bristol, England. Parents Charles Adrien Ladislas Dirac. Florence Hannah Holten Education University of Bristol. Academic qualifications B.Sc (Bristol), PhD (Cantab) Posts held Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Cambridge, 1932-1969. Fellow of St John's College. Professor of Physics, Florida State University. FRS 1930. Nobel Prize for Physics, 1933. Royal Medal of Royall Society, 1939. Betrothal Married 1937, Margit Wigner, Budapest. Deceased Died 20 October 1984. Tallahassee, FA. BACK TO BIOGRAPHY INDEX BACK TO LIVING ARCHIVE HOME PAGE

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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac Paul Dirac received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 at the age of 31. Im Alter von 31 Jahren bekam Paul Dirac 1933 den Nobelpreis für Physik. P.A.M. Dirac as a young man P.A.M. Dirac als junger Mann Paul Dirac in his 80's Paul Dirac im Alter October 1927 at the Solvay Physics Conference in Bruxelles - group picture with Albert Einstein, Paul Dirac and Marie Curie August 1, 1991 - Paul Dirac was honored with a commemorative stone placed in a little garden with his name in Saint-Maurice, the town of origin of his forefathers in Valais, Switzerland 1. August 1991 - In seinem ehemaligen Bürgerort und Heimatort seiner Vorfahren Saint-Maurice, Valais wurde Paul Dirac mit einem Gedenkstein geehrt, der in einem kleinen Garten mit seinem Namen steht. November 13, 1995 - day of the inauguration of a commemorative plaque for Paul Dirac, close to the one for Isaac Newton, in Westminster Abbey in London 13. November 1995 - Im Westminster Abbey in London wurde neben der Gedenktafel für Isaac Newton eine Gedenktafel für Paul Dirac eingeweiht. More about / mehr über Paul Dirac Paul Dirac's biography / Paul Dirac's Biographie by Dirac Optimized for and 800x600 Pixel

76. DiracGenealogy The most famous member of the family is the physicist and nobel Prize winnerPaul adrien maurice dirac who was born in England and died in Florida. http://www.dirac.ch/gen_dirac.html

Dirac Genealogy Thairé, Charente-Maritime The first Dirac we know about is Didier Dirac who was a sergeant in the French Army (regiment of Poitou) at the end of the 17th century. Since there is a village with the name of Dirac near Angoulème in the South of Poitou-Charente, one could suppose that there is a connection between the family name and this village. The Mayor of Dirac and an historian of the area are certain that there never was a person with the name of Dirac living in their village. We were told, however, that it was the habit in military circles in those times to call a man after the town of his origin. It could well be that Didier came from Dirac, was called Dirac during his military service, and kept the name after he moved on to Noyers-sur-Jabron (Basses-Alpes). In 1721 his son Philippe Dirac was born in Noyer-sur-Jabron. Didier Dirac died only two years afterwards in 1723. A document of 1745 proves that Philippe lived in Besançon with his mother for awhile. He moved on to Thonon (Haute-Savoie) where his son Pierre-Louis was born in 1748. Later he lived in La Grave (Hautes Alpes) and finally settled down in St. Maurice, Valais

77. Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac Translate this page paul adrien maurice dirac. paul dirac ist als Schöpfer der kompletten theoretischenFormulierung der dirac reiste viel in der Welt und studierte an http://www.tf.uni-kiel.de/matwis/amat/mw1_ge/biographien/dirac.html

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac * 08.08.1902 in Bristol 1933 Physik-Nobelpreis 1932 wurde er Lucasian professor of mathematics St John's College Cambridge The principles of Quantum Mechanics Lucasian professor of mathematics Florida State University 1930 wurde er ein Mitglied der Royal Society . 1939 erhielt er die Royal Medal und 1952 erhielt er die Copley Medal Nobel Foundation

78. Acoustics Engineering - P.A.M. Dirac paul adrien maurice dirac (19021984) dirac was a british theoretical physicist andNobel laureate, renowned for his prediction of the existence of the positron http://www.acoustics-engineering.com/dirac/pamdirac.htm

contact site map Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac Dirac was a british theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate, renowned for his prediction of the existence of the positron, or antielectron, and for his research in quantum theory. Dirac was the first to apply quantum mechanics to an electromagnetic field. His work contained the basis for quantum field theory, which Dirac called quantum electrodynamics. The singular delta function was invented by Dirac in order to prove two problems were equivalent. The delta function is now used in many different areas of mathematics and physics and is considered fundamental. In 1926 he derived Balmer-spectrum energy levels of the hydrogen atom. He was the first to derive the Lorentzian shape of spectral lines using quantum mechanics. He introduced the terms bra and ket from the word bracket to denote the use of parts of the bracket. The half brackets were for state vectors and their eigenvalues. One of his major breakthroughs was the use of an algebraic version of quantum mechanics based on Poisson brackets.

79. CV paul dirac. paul adrien maurice dirac was born on Aug. In 1933 he shared theNobel Prize for Physics with the Austrian physicist Erwin Schroedinger. http://quantum.quniverse.sk/buzek/dirac.html

Up: Quantum Mechanics Next: Heisenberg Previous: Bohr PAUL DIRAC Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac The Principles of Quantum Mechanics (4th ed., 1958), Dirac developed the so-called transformation theory of quantum mechanics that furnished a machinery for calculating the statistical distribution of certain variables when others are specified. He also stated his philosophical position with respect to theoretical physics. The fundamental laws of nature, he wrote, `` control a substratum of which we cannot form a mental picture without introducing irrelevancies .'' In his own work Dirac avoided using any pictorial model or mental picture of the phenomena described by his mathematical symbols. In addition to refining mathematical descriptions of matter on the atomic scale, Dirac introduced a quantum theory of radiation. He was co-inventor of the Fermi-Dirac statistics. In 1933 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics and in 1939 the medal of the Royal Society. Dirac taught at Cambridge after receiving his doctorate there, and in 1932 he was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, the chair once held by Isaac Newton. He served in that capacity until 1968, shortly after which he moved to the United States. In 1971 he was made professor emeritus at Florida State University, Tallahassee (U.S.A.). He has died there on Oct. 20, 1984. Up: Quantum Mechanics Next: Heisenberg Previous: Bohr Vladimir Buzek

80. FSU Press Release watches television or takes prescription medication owes some gratitude to the latePaul adrien maurice dirac. In 1933 dirac shared the nobel Prize with http://www.fsu.edu/~unicomm/pages/releases/2002_11/release_2002_11_20a.html

Close Window CONTACT: Howard Baer baer@hep.fsu.edu By David Cox November 2002 FSU TO CELEBRATE THE LIFE AND WORK OF A SCIENCE GIANT TALLAHASSEE, Fla.-Anyone who uses a microwave oven or cellular phone, operates a computer, listens to a radio, watches television or takes prescription medication owes some gratitude to the late Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac. A panel of internationally renowned scholars and Dirac's daughter, Monica Dirac, will assemble at Florida State University on Dec. 6 and 7 to celebrate the centennial of Dirac's birth. In addition to memorializing the former FSU physics professor, the panel will share stories about his life and engage in some very technical discussions about the accomplishments of a man recognized next to Albert Einstein, Sir Isaac Newton and James Maxwell as one of the greatest scientists ever. Dirac's centennial celebration, like his career, spans the Atlantic Ocean from his birthplace in Bristol, England, to his final resting place in Tallahassee. Celebrations were held earlier this year in Bristol and at the University of Cambridge, where Dirac held the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics - the same chair held by Newton - from 1932 to 1969. He came to FSU in 1970 at the urging of the late Joseph Lannutti, founder of the university's high-energy physics program, and taught here until his death in 1984. Physics Professor Howard Baer, the symposium's coordinator, has assembled an impressive list of scientists to talk about Dirac's life and work. Many of the presentations, though, may be indigestible for the casual observer.

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