The Nobel Prize in Physics 1933
Awarded on: 1933-11-09
"for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory"
Affiliations:
- University of Cambridge – Cambridge, United Kingdom
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
Born: 1902-08-08 in Bristol, United Kingdom
Gender: male
Field: British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
Biography
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was a British theoretical physicist who is considered to be one of the founders of quantum mechanics. Dirac laid the foundations for both quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory. He was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge from 1932 to 1969 and a professor of physics at Florida State University from 1970 to 1984. Dirac shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics with Erwin Schrödinger "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory".