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Paul Dirac: the purest soul in physics

01 Feb 1998

Paul Dirac published the first of his papers on “The Quantum Theory of the Electron” seventy years ago this month. The Dirac equation, derived in those papers, is one of the most important equations in physics, says Michael Berry

Paul Dirac
Genius at work. (Picture credit: AIP Emilio Sergè Visual Archives)
Each day, I walk past the road where Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac lived as a child. It is pleasant to h

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Sir Michael Berry is Royal Society Research Professor at the H H Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL, UK. This is a version of a talk delivered in September 1997 at the official opening of Dirac House, the headquarters of Institute of Physics Publishing
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