A new idea of the constitution of space was presented when Dr. P.A.M. Dirac, twenty-five year old Cambridge physicist already famous in mathematical circles, announced to the British Association for ...

In a new biography, Graham Farmelo digs deep into the archives and personal papers of a little-known Nobel-winning physicist. Farmelo discusses The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic ...

In August 1929, two of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics, Werner Heisenberg and Paul Dirac, were sailing on a cruise ship to a conference in Japan. Both still in their twenties, and unmarried, ...

The father of antimatter was the remarkable English physicist Paul Dirac (1902-1984), considered by many to be the greatest British theorist since Sir Isaac Newton. His research marked the first time ...

Few people perhaps know what “positron” is in “Positron Emission Tomography” (PET scan). PET works by using radioactive atoms which emit particles called positrons, the antiparticle of electrons ...