More by P. A. M. Dirac This article was originally published with the title “ The Evolution of the Physicist's Picture of Nature ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 208 No. 5 ( May 1963 ...

However, a groundbreaking revelation came in 1930 when physicist Paul Dirac introduced the world to the notion of 'antiparticles'. These were not just theoretical musings. Dirac's work led to the ...

The British physicist Paul Dirac started the ball rolling in the late 1920s with his equation describing how relativistic electrons – and with it most other matter particles – behave.

"This was totally unexpected," says condensed matter physicist Yinming Shao, from Pennsylvania State University. "We weren't even looking for a semi-Dirac fermion when we started working with this ...

Enrico Fermi had to cajole his friend Ettore Majorana into publishing his big idea: a modification of the Dirac equation that would have profound ramifications for particle physics. Shortly ...

“I thought in 1905”, he wrote in a paper in 1920, “that in physics one should not speak of the aether at all. This judgement was too radical...”. In 1951, writing in Nature, Paul Dirac ...

“We weren’t even looking for a semi-Dirac fermion when we started working with this material, but we were seeing signatures we didn’t understand,” Yinming Shao, lead author and Penn State physicist, ...

Schrödinger obtained his PhD in physics and took a position with the ... week there learned that he'd won the Nobel Prize with Paul Dirac. After three years, he returned to a university post ...