# Paul Dirac

> He wrote down an equation in 1928 that married relativity to quantum mechanics and predicted antimatter before anyone had seen it — a leap so clean that physics has been working out the implications ever since.

*British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** United Kingdom
- **Born:** 1902-08-08
- **Died:** 1984-10-20
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Dirac came up through electrical engineering at Bristol, then mathematics, then arrived at Cambridge in 1926 to write the first doctoral thesis on quantum mechanics. Two years later he formulated the Dirac equation, connecting special relativity and quantum mechanics in a way that predicted the existence of antimatter. A 1931 paper sharpened that prediction. He contributed to Fermi–Dirac statistics, which describes particles with half-integer spin, and worked to reconcile general relativity with quantum mechanics. His 1930 monograph, The Principles of Quantum Mechanics, became one of the field's foundational texts. He shared the 1933 Nobel Prize with Schrödinger, held the Lucasian chair at Cambridge from 1932 to 1969, then taught at Florida State until his death in 1984. Hawking later said Dirac had done more than anyone but Einstein to advance physics that century.

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## Topics
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