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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Fermi?Dirac statistics (F?D statistics) is a part of the science of physics that describes the energies of single particles in a system comprising many identical particles that obey the Pauli Exclusion Principle. It is named after Enrico Fermi and Paul Dirac, who each discovered it independently. F?D statistics applies to identical particles with half-integer spin in a system in thermal equilibrium. Additionally, the particles in this system are assumed to have negligible mutual interaction. This allows the many-particle system to be described in terms of single-particle energy states. The result is the Fermi?Dirac distribution of particles over these states and includes the condition that no two particles can occupy the same state, which has a considerable effect on the properties of the system. Since Fermi?Dirac statistics applies to particles with half-integer spin, they have come to be called fermions. It is most commonly applied to electrons, which are fermions with spin 1/2. Fermi?Dirac statistics is a part of the more general field of statistical mechanics and uses the principles of quantum mechanics. ... Read more

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This first full-length biography of Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac offers a comprehensive account of his physics in its historical context, including less known areas such as cosmology and classical electron theory.It is based extensively on unpublished sources, including Dirac's correspondence with Bohr, Heisenberg, Pauli, Schrödinger, Gamow and others.Dirac was undoubtedly one of the most brilliant and influential physicists of the twentieth century.Between 1925 and 1934, the Nobel Prize laureate revolutionized physics with his brilliant contributions to quantum theory. This work examines Dirac's successes and failures, and pays particular attention to his opposition to modern quantum electrodynamics; an opposition based on aesthetic objections. ... Read more

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This book is a very in depth scientific biography of the famous theoretical physicist. Since it is a scientific biography it is heavy on the physics and prepare yourself to see a lot of equations. Also prepare to not see explanation of notation. All in all this is probably not a great biography for the layman and even the physicist who reads it will hopefully know a bit of QED since a lot of his career revolved around that subject.

The book may not be to blame for not being a great read. This is simply because Dirac did not especially do much in his life but physics. Therefore, in the book there is little connect to more familiar pieces of history. Contrast this with the life of Einstein or any of the German physicists of the time period.

My favorite parts of the book were the anecdotes of Dirac's bizarre, reclusive, and ultra-logical personality. For instance, someone once called him up and invited him to an event. Dirac said he would think about it and then put the phone down on the table, not hanging it up. After thinking for a minute, he picked it up again and gave his answer. Many more humorous examples were in the book. ... Read more

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From the supplier: Physicist Robert Oppenheimer and poet Stephen Spender had much in common. Both had great talent and were acutely aware of it. Both befriended genuises in their fields that they admired greatly: Paul A.M. Dirac and W.H. Auden. Neither Oppenheimer, nor Spender, could emerge from the shadow of their friends' geniuses.

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Title: The merely very good. (Paul A.M. Dirac is to Robert Oppenheimer, as W.H. Auden is to Stephen Spender or genius before talent)
Author: Jeremy Bernstein
Publication: American Scholar (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1997
Publisher: Phi Beta Kappa Society
Volume: v66Issue: n1Page: p31(9)

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