P.A.M. Dirac: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Good accounts of the life of Dirac include Helge Kragh, Dirac: A Scientific Biography (1990); Behram N. Kursunoglu and Eugene Paul Wigner (eds.), Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac: Reminiscences About a Great Physicist (1987); R.H. Dalitz and Rudolf Peierls, “Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, 1902–1984,” Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 32:139–185 (1986); and Graham Farmelo, The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom (2009). Dirac’s papers can be found in R.H. Dalitz (ed.), The Collected Works of P.A.M. Dirac, 1924–1948 (1995).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Anniversary information added. | Aug 04, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - In Our Time - Paul Dirac. | Feb 23, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Oct 16, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Physical Society - January 1928: The Dirac equation unifies quantum mechanics and special relativity. | Apr 11, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - In Our Time - Paul Dirac. | Feb 27, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: AIP - P. A. M. Dirac - Session I. | Jan 03, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Paul Dirac and the Nobel Prize in Physics. | Oct 01, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Magnet Academy - Paul Dirac. | Aug 07, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Pressbooks Create - Simply Dirac - P.A.M. Dirac. | Jun 28, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: San Jos� State University - The Creations of Paul Dirac. | Apr 23, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Feb 27, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Guardian - Paul Dirac: The man who conjured laws of nature from pure thought. | Feb 23, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Psychology Today - The Creative Life of a Genius: Nobel Laureate P. A. M. Dirac. | Dec 20, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: LiveScience - 'The most magical equation in physics': How Paul Dirac accidentally revealed the strange world of antimatter. | Sep 29, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Nature - Paul Dirac: a physicist of few words. | Jul 20, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Institute for Advanced Study - Paul Dirac: The Mozart of Science. | May 28, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: h2g2 - Biography of Paul Dirac. | Nov 01, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Scientists - Biography of Paul Dirac. | May 04, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Vigyan Prasar - Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac. | Jan 29, 2014 | ||
| The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom by Graham Farmelo added to bibliography. | Feb 09, 2010 | ||
| Added new Web site: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive - Biography of Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac. |
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| Article revised. | Feb 16, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Jan 12, 2000 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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