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• Schweber, Silvan S. (1994). QED and the men who made it: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga . Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN   978-0-691-03685-4. OCLC   28966591.
• Zee, Anthony (2010). Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell . Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN   978-1-4008-3532-4. OCLC   318585662.

Further reading

• Brown, Helen (24 January 2009). "The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac by Graham Farmelo – review [print version: The man behind the maths]". The Daily Telegraph (Review). p. 20. Archived from the original on 2 February 2009. Retrieved 11 April 2011..
• Gilder, Louisa (13 September 2009). "Quantum Leap – Review of 'The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac by Graham Farmelo'". The New York Times . Retrieved 11 April 2011. Review.
• Mukunda, N. (1987) "The life and work of P.A.M. Dirac", pages 260 to 282 in Recent Developments in Theoretical Physics, World Scientific MR 935624

External links

• Oral history interview transcript with P. A. M. Dirac on 1 April 1962, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives—Session I
• Oral history interview transcript with P. A. M. Dirac on 6 May 1963, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives—Session II
• Oral history interview transcript with P. A. M. Dirac on 7 Mary 1963, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives—Session III
• Oral history interview transcript with P. A. M. Dirac on 10 May 1963, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives—Session IV
• Oral history interview transcript with P. A. M. Dirac on 14 May 1963, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives—Session V
• Free online access to Dirac's classic 1920s papers from Royal Society's Proceedings A
• Annotated bibliography for Paul Dirac from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues
• The Paul Dirac Collection at Florida State University
• The Papers of Professor Paul Dirac at the Churchill Archives Centre
• Oral history interview with Steve Edwards and Joe Lannutti on Dirac's appointment at Florida State University

Paul Dirac OM FRS
Dirac in 1933
Born	Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1902-08-08)8 August 1902 Bristol, England
Died	20 October 1984(1984-10-20) (aged 82) Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Bristol (BS, 1921; BA, 1923) University of Cambridge (PhD, 1926)
Known for	Introducing Fermi–Dirac statistics (1926) Founding quantum electrodynamics (1927) Formulating the Dirac equation (1928) Postulating the positron (1928) Postulating the magnetic monopole (1931) Introducing the bra–ket notation (1939)
Spouse	Margit Wigner ​ (m. 1937)​
Children	2
Relatives	Eugene Wigner (brother-in-law)
Awards	FRS (1930) Nobel Prize in Physics (1933) Royal Medal (1939) Copley Medal (1952) Max Planck Medal (1952)
Honours	Order of Merit (1973)
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical physics
Institutions	University of Cambridge
Thesis	Quantum Mechanics  (1926)
Doctoral advisor	Ralph H. Fowler
Doctoral students	Homi J. Bhabha [1] Harish-Chandra [2] Dennis Sciama Fred Hoyle [3] Behram Kurşunoğlu [4] John Polkinghorne [5] C. J. Eliezer
15th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
In office 1932–1969

v t e Copley Medallists (1951–2000)

David Keilin (1951) Paul Dirac (1952) Albert Kluyver (1953) E. T. Whittaker (1954) Ronald Fisher (1955) Patrick Blackett (1956) Howard Florey (1957) John Edensor Littlewood (1958) Macfarlane Burnet (1959) Harold Jeffreys (1960) Hans Krebs (1961) Cyril N. Hinshelwood (1962) Paul Fildes (1963) Sydney Chapman (1964) Alan Hodgkin (1965) Lawrence Bragg (1966) Bernard Katz (1967) Tadeusz Reichstein (1968) Peter Medawar (1969) Alec Todd (1970) Norman Pirie (1971) Nevill Mott (1972) Andrew Huxley (1973) W. V. D. Hodge (1974) Francis Crick (1975) Dorothy Hodgkin (1976) Frederick Sanger (1977) Robert Burns Woodward (1978) Max Perutz (1979) Derek Barton (1980) Peter D. Mitchell (1981) John Cornforth (1982) Rodney Porter (1983) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1984) Aaron Klug (1985) Rudolf Peierls (1986) Robin Hill (1987) Michael Atiyah (1988) César Milstein (1989) Abdus Salam (1990) Sydney Brenner (1991) George Porter (1992) James Watson (1993) Charles Frank (1994) Frank Fenner (1995) Alan Cottrell (1996) Hugh Huxley (1997) James Lighthill (1998) John Maynard Smith (1999) Alan R. Battersby (2000)