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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac Biography and Timeline

Follow Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac through 4 dated historical records for Great Britain.

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, historical timeline

A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.

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1928–1933Years on this page

1928

Relativistic Electron Equation

Physicist · Cambridge · Science / Physics

Formulates a relativistic quantum equation for the electron that naturally incorporates spin and implies antimatter states.

1933

Nobel Prize for Quantum Electron Theory

Physicist · Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for new forms of atomic theory that include relativistic electron states.

Leipzig Physics Lectures

Physicist · Leipzig · Science / Physics

Visits Leipzig for advanced physics lectures during the city's theoretical-physics heyday.

Nobel Prize

Physicist · Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for developing new productive forms of atomic theory, including a relativistic quantum theory of the electron.

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