Di·rac (d -r k ), Paul Adrien Maurice 1902-1984. British mathematician and physicist. He shared a 1933 Nobel Prize for new formulations of the atomic theory. |
Dirac [dɪˈræk]
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(Biographies / Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice (1902-1984) M, English, SCIENCE: physicist) Paul Adrien Maurice. 1902-84, English physicist, noted for his work on the application of relativity to quantum mechanics and his prediction of electron spin and the positron: shared the Nobel prize for physics 1933
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| Noun | 1. | Dirac - English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984) |
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