Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (8 August 1902 - 20 October 1984) was a 20th century Human man, a notable physicist from the planet Earth and a founder of quantum mechanics. A contemporary of Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, and Werner Heisenberg, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 and held the Lucasian Chair professorship at Cambridge University for nearly four decades.
Biography[]
Dirac was the first on Earth to theorize the existence of antimatter. (Star Trek: Communicator Issue 131: "At the Core of Matter Antimatter")
Legacy[]
- Dirac beep, involving the nature of subspace communications (TOS short story: "The Business, As Usual, During Altercations")
- Dirac discontinuity, a type of gravitational anomaly in space (TOS novel: The Abode of Life)
- Dirac jump, involving the quantum state of atoms while being transported
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External links[]
- Paul Dirac article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.