Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac OM FRS was an English theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. He was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, a member of the Center for Theoretical Studies, University of Miami, and spent the last decade of his life at Florida State University.
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was born at his parents home in Bristol, England, onAugust 1902, and grew up in the Bishopston area of the city. His father, Charles Adrien Ladislas Dirac, was an immigrant from SaintMaurice, Switzerland, who worked in Bristol as a French teacher. His mother, Florence Hannah Dirac, ne Holten, the daughter of a ships captain, was born in Cornwall, England, and worked as a librarian at the Bristol Central Library. Paul had a younger sister, Batrice Isabelle Marguerite, known as Betty, and an older brother, Reginald Charles Flix, known as Felix, who committed suicide in March 1925. Dirac later recalled My parents were terribly distressed. I didnt know they cared so much I never knew that parents were supposed to care for their children, but from then on I knew.
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