Paul A. M. Dirac, Interview by Friedrich Hund (1982) [video]
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Nice; the quintessential Theoretical/Mathematical Physicist!
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strangest_Man
Paul Dirac Quotes - https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac
Read his lecture/essay; The Relation between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac - https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/events/strings02/dirac/speach.ht...
Wikipedia also has a nice general overview; Relationship between Mathematics and Physics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_between_mathemati...
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One of my favorite photographs. It captures their characters so well.
Are the two middle initials necessary? Any other notable Paul Dirac's?
Dirac: "Yes, that is so."
I recently watched the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion, where they make reference to a Dirac Sea [1].
It seemed very magical/trippy/cool.
aside: for feynman, mr. oppenheimer said "he is a second Dirac, only this time human".
It is a shame to think that people might be aware of Dirac only through reference to Feynman, whose greatest works extended Dirac's own original breakthroughs. He has been rightly likened instead to Einstein for the brilliance and creativity of his contributions. Dirac created much of the foundations, modern formalisms, and mathematical tools of (especially relativistic) QM and also wrote the best textbook on the subject.
Both were pretty neurodivergent. Dirac had Autism and Feynman probably Autism + ADHD .
