Quantum mechanics has a reputation that precedes it. Virtually everyone who has bumped up against the quantum realm, whether ...

THE STRANGEST MAN: THE HIDDEN LIFE OF PAUL DIRAC, MYSTIC OF THE ATOM Graham Farmelo Basic Books, 539 pp., $29.95 The British physicist Paul Dirac (1902-84), a winner of the Nobel Prize, is ...

Paul Dirac's negative energy solutions describe anti-matter, not holes in the Dirac sea. Only a few years after Dirac wrote down his equation in 1928, the positron, the anti-matter electron, was ...

A Harvard scientists suggested that the elegance and predictive success of the equation may hint at a purposeful design in the universe, saying it proves God is real.

Paul Dirac, born in England in 1902, grew up as a shy and lonely child under a strict father. He had the type of precise mind that makes for great mathematicians and good linguists - in fact, he ...

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1902-84) was a pioneer of quantum theory in the 1920s and 1930s and fully as obscure and bizarre as that revolution in physics.

Paul Dirac's famous equation, which he first wrote down in January of 1928, predicted the existence of a spin-1/2 particle and a corresponding antiparticle. The ensuing experimental discovery of ...

On another occasion, answering questions after a lecture, an audience member said, "Dr Dirac, I didn't understand the equation on the top-right of the blackboard." Dirac said nothing.

He edited the bestselling It Must be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science in 2002 and more recently wrote the highly acclaimed The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius.