Unit of "One word per hour"
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was an English theoretical Physicist and Noble Laureate, one of the developer of Quantum mechanics and Quantum electrodynamics. In 1933, He shared Nobel Prize with Erwin Schrodinger
" The discovery of new productive form of atomic theory".
He formulated the Dirac Equation to describe the behavior of Fermions and predicted the existence of antimatter. He reconciliated general theory of relativity in quantum Mechanics. He and Fermi joined to form new era called "Fermi- Dirac Statistics"
Dirac was always teased by his friends and colleagues because of his unusual character. Albert Einstein wrote a letter to Paul Ehrenfest,
" I have trouble with Dirac. This balancing on the dizzying path between genius and madness is awful".
Dirac studied electrical engineering on the city of Bristol University Scholarship at the University of Bristol engineering faculty, which was co-located with the Merchant Venturer's Technical College. He completed his bachelor degree in engineering, despite the economic climate of post war depression he was unable to work as an engineer. So he took up an offer to study Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics at University of Bristol. In 1926, He pursued his PhD in 1926.
" First Thesis for Quantum Mechanics".
Dirac was known among his colleagues for his precise and taciturn nature. His colleagues in Cambridge jokingly defined a unit called a
"Dirac", which was one word per hour
When Neil Bohr complaining Dirac didnot complete sentence in his research articles, He replied
"I was taught at school never to start a sentence without knowing the end of it."
He presented a lecture at a conference, one colleague raised his hand and said: "I don't understand the equation on the top-right-hand corner of the blackboard". After a long silence, the moderator asked Dirac if he wanted to answer the question, to which Dirac replied:
"That was not a question, it was a comment."
A modern man, wise minded one, speaking less but gave his contribution is lot. Eventually, Most Physicist speaks Fermi-Dirac Statistics for half- integer spin particle. Bose-Einstein statistics for integer-spin particles, while lecturing later in life, Dirac always insisted on called the former "Fermi Statistics" , Later "Einstein statistics" for a reason of "Symmetry"
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