Development of Quantum Theory: J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize Acceptance Speech

by Paul A.M. Dirac

Genres: Science

Library Binding

First published January 1, 1971

About the author

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, also known as P.A.M. Dirac, was an English theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. He was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, a member of the Center for Theoretical Studies, University of Miami, and spent the last decade of his life at Florida State University.

Among other discoveries, he formulated the Dirac equation which describes the behaviour of fermions and predicted the existence of antimatter. Dirac shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics with Erwin Schrödinger "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory". He also made significant contributions to the reconciliation of general relativity with quantum mechanics.