The English physicist Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1902-1984) formulated a most general type of quantum mechanics and a relativistic wave equation for the electron which led to the prediction of positive electrons, the first known forms of antimatter....

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was one of the twentieth century's leading theoretical physicists. Instrumental in developing quantum mechanics , the theoretical study of atomic structure and properties, and quantum electrodynamics, the study of the...

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was one of the leading theoretical physicists of the twentieth century. He made significant contributions to the early development of quantum mechanics, to theories of atomic structure and properties, and to quantum...

Dirac was born in Bristol, England, on August 8, 1902. His mother was English and his father was Swiss. Dirac earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Bristol in 1921. When he was unable to find a job in engineering,...