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231 relations: Abdus Salam, Abiogenesis, Abraham Pais, Albert Einstein, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, American Physical Society, Analytical Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies, Anomalous magnetic dipole moment, Anti-de Sitter space, Anticommutative property, Antimatter, Antiparticle, Antonino Zichichi, Arnold Sommerfeld, Australian Institute of Physics, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bangalore, Behram Kurşunoğlu, Beta decay, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Bishop Road Primary School, Bishopston, Bristol, Blue plaque, Born–Infeld model, Bose–Einstein statistics, Boson, Bra–ket notation, Bristol, Bristol Central Library, British undergraduate degree classification, C. J. Eliezer, Canonical quantization, Canonical quantum gravity, Carl David Anderson, Cécile DeWitt-Morette, Center for Theoretical Studies, University of Miami, Cheltenham, Churchill Archives Centre, Classical mechanics, Commutative property, Compton scattering, Copenhagen, Copley Medal, Coral Gables, Florida, Cornish people, Cornwall, Cosmology, Cotham School, ... Expand index (181 more) »
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Abdus Salam
Mohammad Abdus Salam Salam adopted the forename "Mohammad" in 1974 in response to the anti-Ahmadiyya decrees in Pakistan, similarly he grew his beard. Paul Dirac and Abdus Salam are Foreign Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars, members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Nobel laureates in Physics, Recipients of the Copley Medal and royal Medal winners.
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Abiogenesis
Abiogenesis is the natural process by which life arises from non-living matter, such as simple organic compounds.
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Abraham Pais
Abraham Pais (May 19, 1918 – July 28, 2000) was a Dutch-American physicist and science historian.
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held as one of the most influential scientists. Best known for developing the theory of relativity, Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics. His mass–energy equivalence formula, which arises from relativity theory, has been called "the world's most famous equation". Paul Dirac and Albert Einstein are Nobel laureates in Physics and Winners of the Max Planck Medal.
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.
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American Philosophical Society
The American Philosophical Society (APS) is an American scholarly organization and learned society founded in 1743 in Philadelphia that promotes knowledge in the humanities and natural sciences through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach.
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American Physical Society
The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units.
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Analytical Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies
A Treatise on the Analytical Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies is a treatise and textbook on analytical dynamics by British mathematician Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker.
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Anomalous magnetic dipole moment
In quantum electrodynamics, the anomalous magnetic moment of a particle is a contribution of effects of quantum mechanics, expressed by Feynman diagrams with loops, to the magnetic moment of that particle.
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Anti-de Sitter space
In mathematics and physics, n-dimensional anti-de Sitter space (AdSn) is a maximally symmetric Lorentzian manifold with constant negative scalar curvature.
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Anticommutative property
In mathematics, anticommutativity is a specific property of some non-commutative mathematical operations.
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Antimatter
In modern physics, antimatter is defined as matter composed of the antiparticles (or "partners") of the corresponding particles in "ordinary" matter, and can be thought of as matter with reversed charge, parity, and time, known as CPT reversal.
Antiparticle
In particle physics, every type of particle of "ordinary" matter (as opposed to antimatter) is associated with an antiparticle with the same mass but with opposite physical charges (such as electric charge).
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Antonino Zichichi
Antonino Zichichi (born 15 October 1929) is an Italian physicist who has worked in the field of nuclear physics. Paul Dirac and Antonino Zichichi are members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
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Arnold Sommerfeld
Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld, (5 December 1868 – 26 April 1951) was a German theoretical physicist who pioneered developments in atomic and quantum physics, and also educated and mentored many students for the new era of theoretical physics. Paul Dirac and Arnold Sommerfeld are academic staff of the University of Göttingen, Foreign Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences and Winners of the Max Planck Medal.
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Australian Institute of Physics
The Australian Institute of Physics was established in 1963, when it replaced the Australian Branch of the British Institute of Physics based in London.
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Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.
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Bachelor of Science
A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, B.Sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin scientiae baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years.
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Bangalore
Bangalore, officially Bengaluru (ISO: Beṁgaḷūru), is the capital and largest city of the southern Indian state of Karnataka.
Behram Kurşunoğlu
Behram Kurşunoğlu (14 March 1922 – 25 October 2003) was a Turkish physicist and the founder and the director of the Center for Theoretical Studies, University of Miami. Paul Dirac and Behram Kurşunoğlu are university of Miami faculty.
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Beta decay
In nuclear physics, beta decay (β-decay) is a type of radioactive decay in which an atomic nucleus emits a beta particle (fast energetic electron or positron), transforming into an isobar of that nuclide.
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
The Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society is an academic journal on the history of science published annually by the Royal Society.
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Bishop Road Primary School
Bishop Road Primary School is a primary school in Bristol, England.
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Bishopston, Bristol
Bishopston is a suburb of the city of Bristol in south west England.
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Blue plaque
A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom, and certain other countries and territories, to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker.
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Born–Infeld model
In theoretical physics, the Born–Infeld model or the Dirac–Born–Infeld action is a particular example of what is usually known as a nonlinear electrodynamics.
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Bose–Einstein statistics
In quantum statistics, Bose–Einstein statistics (B–E statistics) describes one of two possible ways in which a collection of non-interacting identical particles may occupy a set of available discrete energy states at thermodynamic equilibrium.
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Boson
In particle physics, a boson is a subatomic particle whose spin quantum number has an integer value (0, 1, 2,...). Bosons form one of the two fundamental classes of subatomic particle, the other being fermions, which have odd half-integer spin (...). Every observed subatomic particle is either a boson or a fermion.
Bra–ket notation
Bra–ket notation, also called Dirac notation, is a notation for linear algebra and linear operators on complex vector spaces together with their dual space both in the finite-dimensional and infinite-dimensional case.
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Bristol
Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region.
Bristol Central Library
Bristol Central Library is a historic building on the south side of College Green, Bristol, England.
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British undergraduate degree classification
The British undergraduate degree classification system is a grading structure used for undergraduate degrees or bachelor's degrees and integrated master's degrees in the United Kingdom.
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C. J. Eliezer
Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer (translit; 12 June 1918 – 10 March 2001) was a Ceylon Tamil mathematician, physicist and academic. Paul Dirac and C. J. Eliezer are institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars.
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Canonical quantization
In physics, canonical quantization is a procedure for quantizing a classical theory, while attempting to preserve the formal structure, such as symmetries, of the classical theory to the greatest extent possible.
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Canonical quantum gravity
In physics, canonical quantum gravity is an attempt to quantize the canonical formulation of general relativity (or canonical gravity).
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Carl David Anderson
Carl David Anderson (September 3, 1905 – January 11, 1991) was an American physicist. Paul Dirac and Carl David Anderson are Nobel laureates in Physics.
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Cécile DeWitt-Morette
Cécile Andrée Paule DeWitt-Morette (21 December 1922 – 8 May 2017) was a French mathematician and physicist.
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Center for Theoretical Studies, University of Miami
The University of Miami Center for Theoretical Studies was established in 1965 under the direction of Behram Kurşunoğlu, with guidance from J. Robert Oppenheimer and with the support of the University's President Henry King Stanford.
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Cheltenham
Cheltenham is a spa town and borough on the edge of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, England.
Churchill Archives Centre
The Churchill Archives Centre (CAC) at Churchill College at the University of Cambridge is one of the largest repositories in the United Kingdom for the preservation and study of modern personal papers.
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Classical mechanics
Classical mechanics is a physical theory describing the motion of objects such as projectiles, parts of machinery, spacecraft, planets, stars, and galaxies.
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Commutative property
In mathematics, a binary operation is commutative if changing the order of the operands does not change the result.
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Compton scattering
Compton scattering (or the Compton effect) is the quantum theory of high frequency photons scattering following an interaction with a charged particle, usually an electron.
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Copenhagen
Copenhagen (København) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the urban area.
Copley Medal
The Copley Medal is the most prestigious award of the Royal Society, conferred "for sustained, outstanding achievements in any field of science".
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Coral Gables, Florida
Coral Gables is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.
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Cornish people
The Cornish people or Cornish (Kernowyon, Cornƿīelisċ) are an ethnic group native to, or associated with Cornwall: and a recognised national minority in the United Kingdom, which (like the Welsh and Bretons) can trace its roots to the Brittonic Celtic ancient Britons who inhabited Great Britain from somewhere between the 11th and 7th centuries BC and inhabited Britain at the time of the Roman conquest.
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Cornwall
Cornwall (Kernow;; or) is a ceremonial county in South West England.
Cosmology
Cosmology is a branch of physics and metaphysics dealing with the nature of the universe, the cosmos.
Cotham School
Cotham School is a secondary school with academy status in Cotham, a suburb of Bristol, England.
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Dean of Westminster
The Dean of Westminster is the head of the chapter at Westminster Abbey.
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Dennis W. Sciama
Dennis William Siahou Sciama, (18 November 1926 – 18 December 1999) was an English physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. Paul Dirac and Dennis W. Sciama are 20th-century British physicists.
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Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (United Kingdom)
The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research was a department of the British Government responsible for the organisation, development, and encouragement of scientific and industrial research.
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Didcot
Didcot is a railway town and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England, located south of Oxford, east of Wantage and north west of Reading.
DiRAC
Distributed Research using Advanced Computing (DiRAC) is an integrated supercomputing facility used for research in particle physics, astronomy and cosmology in the United Kingdom.
Dirac (software)
Dirac (named after Paul Dirac; own notation DIRAC) is a relativistic ab initio quantum chemistry program.
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Dirac (video compression format)
Dirac (and Dirac Pro, a subset standardised as SMPTE VC-2) is an open and royalty-free video compression format, specification and software video codec developed by BBC Research & Development.
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Dirac algebra
In mathematical physics, the Dirac algebra is the Clifford algebra \text_(\mathbb).
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Dirac bracket
The Dirac bracket is a generalization of the Poisson bracket developed by Paul Dirac to treat classical systems with second class constraints in Hamiltonian mechanics, and to thus allow them to undergo canonical quantization.
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Dirac delta function
In mathematical analysis, the Dirac delta function (or distribution), also known as the unit impulse, is a generalized function on the real numbers, whose value is zero everywhere except at zero, and whose integral over the entire real line is equal to one.
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Dirac equation
In particle physics, the Dirac equation is a relativistic wave equation derived by British physicist Paul Dirac in 1928.
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Dirac large numbers hypothesis
The Dirac large numbers hypothesis (LNH) is an observation made by Paul Dirac in 1937 relating ratios of size scales in the Universe to that of force scales.
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Dirac Medal (ICTP)
The Dirac Medal of the ICTP is given each year by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in honour of physicist Paul Dirac.
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Dirac Medal (IOP)
The Paul Dirac Medal and Prize is a gold medal awarded annually by the Institute of Physics (Britain's and Ireland's main professional body for physicists) for "outstanding contributions to theoretical (including mathematical and computational) physics".
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Dirac membrane
In quantum mechanics, a Dirac membrane is a model of a charged membrane introduced by Paul Dirac in 1962.
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Dirac operator
In mathematics and quantum mechanics, a Dirac operator is a differential operator that is a formal square root, or half-iterate, of a second-order operator such as a Laplacian.
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Dirac sea
The Dirac sea is a theoretical model of the electron vacuum as an infinite sea of electrons with negative energy, now called positrons.
Doctor of Philosophy
A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or DPhil; philosophiae doctor or) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research.
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E. T. Whittaker
Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker (24 October 1873 – 24 March 1956) was a British mathematician, physicist, and historian of science. Paul Dirac and E. T. Whittaker are 20th-century British physicists, British theoretical physicists, mathematical physicists, members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and Recipients of the Copley Medal.
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Ebenezer Cunningham
Ebenezer Cunningham (7 May 1881 in Hackney, London – 12 February 1977) was a British mathematician who is remembered for his research and exposition at the dawn of special relativity.
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Edward Carpenter (priest)
Edward Frederick Carpenter (27 November 1910 – 26 August 1998) was an Anglican priest and author.
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Electrical engineering
Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism.
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Electromagnetism
In physics, electromagnetism is an interaction that occurs between particles with electric charge via electromagnetic fields.
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Electron
The electron (or in nuclear reactions) is a subatomic particle with a negative one elementary electric charge.
Enriched uranium
Enriched uranium is a type of uranium in which the percent composition of uranium-235 (written 235U) has been increased through the process of isotope separation.
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Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi (29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian and naturalized American physicist, renowned for being the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1, and a member of the Manhattan Project. Paul Dirac and Enrico Fermi are academic staff of the University of Göttingen, Nobel laureates in Physics and Winners of the Max Planck Medal.
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Equations of motion
In physics, equations of motion are equations that describe the behavior of a physical system in terms of its motion as a function of time.
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Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961), sometimes written as or, was a Nobel Prize–winning Austrian and naturalized Irish physicist who developed fundamental results in quantum theory. Paul Dirac and Erwin Schrödinger are mathematical physicists, members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Nobel laureates in Physics and Winners of the Max Planck Medal.
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Eugene Wigner
Eugene Paul Wigner (Wigner Jenő Pál,; November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who also contributed to mathematical physics. Paul Dirac and Eugene Wigner are academic staff of the University of Göttingen, mathematical physicists, Nobel laureates in Physics and Winners of the Max Planck Medal.
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Fellow of the Royal Society
Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science, and medical science".
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Fermi's golden rule
In quantum physics, Fermi's golden rule is a formula that describes the transition rate (the probability of a transition per unit time) from one energy eigenstate of a quantum system to a group of energy eigenstates in a continuum, as a result of a weak perturbation.
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Fermi–Dirac statistics
Fermi–Dirac statistics is a type of quantum statistics that applies to the physics of a system consisting of many non-interacting, identical particles that obey the Pauli exclusion principle.
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Fermion
In particle physics, a fermion is a particle that follows Fermi–Dirac statistics.
Fermionic field
In quantum field theory, a fermionic field is a quantum field whose quanta are fermions; that is, they obey Fermi–Dirac statistics.
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Field equation
In theoretical physics and applied mathematics, a field equation is a partial differential equation which determines the dynamics of a physical field, specifically the time evolution and spatial distribution of the field.
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Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Paul Dirac and Florence Nightingale are members of the Order of Merit.
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Florida State University
Florida State University (FSU or, more commonly, Florida State) is a public research university in Tallahassee, Florida, United States.
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Fred Hoyle
Sir Fred Hoyle (24 June 1915 – 20 August 2001) was an English astronomer who formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis and was one of the authors of the influential B2FH paper. Paul Dirac and Fred Hoyle are English agnostics, Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences and royal Medal winners.
Freeman Dyson
Freeman John Dyson (15 December 1923 – 28 February 2020) was a British-American theoretical physicist and mathematician known for his works in quantum field theory, astrophysics, random matrices, mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics, condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, and engineering. Paul Dirac and Freeman Dyson are 20th-century British physicists, 20th-century English mathematicians, British quantum physicists, British theoretical physicists and Winners of the Max Planck Medal.
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French people
The French people (lit) are a nation primarily located in Western Europe that share a common French culture, history, and language, identified with the country of France.
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Gabriel Andrew Dirac
Gabriel Andrew Dirac (13 March 1925 – 20 July 1984) was a Hungarian-British mathematician who mainly worked in graph theory.
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Gas centrifuge
A gas centrifuge is a device that performs isotope separation of gases.
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Gauge theory
In physics, a gauge theory is a type of field theory in which the Lagrangian, and hence the dynamics of the system itself, do not change under local transformations according to certain smooth families of operations (Lie groups).
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Göttingen
Göttingen (Chöttingen) is a university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the capital of the eponymous district.
General relativity
General relativity, also known as the general theory of relativity and Einstein's theory of gravity, is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915 and is the current description of gravitation in modern physics.
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George Gamow
George Gamow (sometimes Gammoff; born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov; Георгий Антонович Гамов; 4 March 1904 – 19 August 1968) was a Soviet and American polymath, theoretical physicist and cosmologist.
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Graham Farmelo
Graham Paul Farmelo (born 18 May 1953) is a biographer and science writer, a Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, U.K., and an adjunct professor of Physics at Northeastern University, Boston, U.S.A. He is best known for his work on science communication and as the author of The Strangest Man, a prize-winning biography of the theoretical physicist Paul Dirac.
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Gravitational wave
Gravitational waves are waves of the intensity of gravity that are generated by the accelerated masses of binary stars and other motions of gravitating masses, and propagate as waves outward from their source at the speed of light.
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Graviton
In theories of quantum gravity, the graviton is the hypothetical quantum of gravity, an elementary particle that mediates the force of gravitational interaction.
Hamiltonian mechanics
In physics, Hamiltonian mechanics is a reformulation of Lagrangian mechanics that emerged in 1833.
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Harish-Chandra
Harish-Chandra Mehrotra FRS (11 October 1923 – 16 October 1983) was an Indian-American mathematician and physicist who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups.
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Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineau (12 June 1802 – 27 June 1876) was an English social theorist.
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Heisenberg picture
In physics, the Heisenberg picture or Heisenberg representation is a formulation (largely due to Werner Heisenberg in 1925) of quantum mechanics in which the operators (observables and others) incorporate a dependency on time, but the state vectors are time-independent, an arbitrary fixed basis rigidly underlying the theory.
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Helikon vortex separation process
The Helikon vortex separation process is an aerodynamic uranium enrichment process designed around a device called a vortex tube.
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Hermann Minkowski
Hermann Minkowski (22 June 1864 – 12 January 1909) was a mathematician and professor at the University of Königsberg, the University of Zürich, and the University of Göttingen, described variously as German, Polish, or Lithuanian-German, or Russian. Paul Dirac and Hermann Minkowski are academic staff of the University of Göttingen.
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Hilbert space
In mathematics, Hilbert spaces (named after David Hilbert) allow the methods of linear algebra and calculus to be generalized from (finite-dimensional) Euclidean vector spaces to spaces that may be infinite-dimensional.
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History of atomic theory
Atomic theory is the scientific theory that matter is composed of particles called atoms.
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History of science
The history of science covers the development of science from ancient times to the present.
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Homi J. Bhabha
Homi Jehangir Bhabha, FNI, FASc, FRS(30 October 1909 to 24 January 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist who is widely credited as the "father of the Indian nuclear programme". Paul Dirac and Homi J. Bhabha are Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Institute for Advanced Study
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry located in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Institute of Physics
The Institute of Physics (IOP) is a UK-based not-for-profit learned society and professional body that works to advance physics education, research and application.
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Interaction picture
In quantum mechanics, the interaction picture (also known as the interaction representation or Dirac picture after Paul Dirac, who introduced it) is an intermediate representation between the Schrödinger picture and the Heisenberg picture.
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International Centre for Theoretical Physics
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) is a research center for physical and mathematical sciences, located in Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy.
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International Congress of Mathematicians
The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics.
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Interpretations of quantum mechanics
An interpretation of quantum mechanics is an attempt to explain how the mathematical theory of quantum mechanics might correspond to experienced reality.
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Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher. Paul Dirac and Isaac Newton are Lucasian Professors of Mathematics.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
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J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize
The J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize and Medal was awarded by the Center for Theoretical Studies, University of Miami, from 1969, until 1984.
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James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish physicist with broad interests who was responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism and light as different manifestations of the same phenomenon. Paul Dirac and James Clerk Maxwell are British theoretical physicists and mathematical physicists.
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Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
The Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) is a multidisciplinary research institute located at Jakkur, Bangalore, India.
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John Archibald Wheeler
John Archibald Wheeler (July 9, 1911April 13, 2008) was an American theoretical physicist.
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John Polkinghorne
John Charlton Polkinghorne (16 October 1930 – 9 March 2021) was an English theoretical physicist, theologian, and Anglican priest.
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John Stewart Bell
John Stewart Bell FRS (28 July 1928 – 1 October 1990) was a physicist from Northern Ireland and the originator of Bell's theorem, an important theorem in quantum physics regarding hidden-variable theories. Paul Dirac and John Stewart Bell are British quantum physicists.
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Julian Schwinger
Julian Seymour Schwinger (February 12, 1918 – July 16, 1994) was a Nobel Prize-winning American theoretical physicist. Paul Dirac and Julian Schwinger are Nobel laureates in Physics.
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Knight
A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church or the country, especially in a military capacity.
Lagrangian mechanics
In physics, Lagrangian mechanics is a formulation of classical mechanics founded on the stationary-action principle (also known as the principle of least action).
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Lamb shift
In physics, the Lamb shift, named after Willis Lamb, is an anomalous difference in energy between two electron orbitals in a hydrogen atom.
Lepton
In particle physics, a lepton is an elementary particle of half-integer spin (spin) that does not undergo strong interactions.
Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings
The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings are annual scientific conferences held in Lindau, Bavaria, Germany, since 1951.
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Liskeard
Liskeard (Lyskerrys) is an ancient stannary and market town in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
List of minor planets: 5001–6000
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List of things named after Paul Dirac
Below is a list of things, primarily in the fields of mathematics and physics, named in honour of Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac.
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Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
The Lucasian Chair of Mathematics is a mathematics professorship in the University of Cambridge, England; its holder is known as the Lucasian Professor. Paul Dirac and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics are Lucasian Professors of Mathematics.
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Magnetic monopole
In particle physics, a magnetic monopole is a hypothetical elementary particle that is an isolated magnet with only one magnetic pole (a north pole without a south pole or vice versa).
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Mathematical beauty
Mathematical beauty is the aesthetic pleasure derived from the abstractness, purity, simplicity, depth or orderliness of mathematics.
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Mathematical physics
Mathematical physics refers to the development of mathematical methods for application to problems in physics.
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Matrix mechanics
Matrix mechanics is a formulation of quantum mechanics created by Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, and Pascual Jordan in 1925.
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Max Planck
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (23 April 1858 – 4 October 1947) was a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. Paul Dirac and Max Planck are Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Nobel laureates in Physics, Recipients of the Copley Medal and Winners of the Max Planck Medal.
Max Planck Medal
The Max Planck medal is the highest award of the German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft), the world's largest organization of physicists, for extraordinary achievements in theoretical physics.
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Maxwell's equations
Maxwell's equations, or Maxwell–Heaviside equations, are a set of coupled partial differential equations that, together with the Lorentz force law, form the foundation of classical electromagnetism, classical optics, electric and magnetic circuits.
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Methodism
Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a Protestant Christian tradition whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley.
Mikhail Shifman
Mikhail "Misha" Arkadyevich Shifman (Михаи́л Арка́дьевич Ши́фман; born 4 April 1949) is a theoretical physicist (high energy physics), formerly at the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Ida Cohen Fine Professor of Theoretical Physics, William I.
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Narasimhaiengar Mukunda
Narasimhaiengar Mukunda (born 25 January 1939, New Delhi, India) is an Indian theoretical physicist.
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National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization.
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MagLab) is a facility at Florida State University, the University of Florida, and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, that performs magnetic field research in physics, biology, bioengineering, chemistry, geochemistry, biochemistry.
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Naturalization
Naturalization (or naturalisation) is the legal act or process by which a non-national of a country acquires the nationality of that country after birth.
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Niels Bohr
Niels Henrik David Bohr (7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Paul Dirac and Niels Bohr are Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars, members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Nobel laureates in Physics, Recipients of the Copley Medal and Winners of the Max Planck Medal.
Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics (Nobelpriset i fysik) is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics.
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Order of Merit
The Order of Merit (Ordre du Mérite) is an order of merit for the Commonwealth realms, recognising distinguished service in the armed forces, science, art, literature, or the promotion of culture. Paul Dirac and order of Merit are members of the Order of Merit.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Path integral formulation
The path integral formulation is a description in quantum mechanics that generalizes the stationary action principle of classical mechanics.
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Paul Ehrenfest
Paul Ehrenfest (18 January 1880 – 25 September 1933) was an Austrian theoretical physicist who made major contributions to the topic of statistical mechanics and its relations with quantum mechanics, including the theory of phase transition and the Ehrenfest theorem.
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Pauli exclusion principle
In quantum mechanics, the Pauli exclusion principle states that two or more identical particles with half-integer spins (i.e. fermions) cannot simultaneously occupy the same quantum state within a system that obeys the laws of quantum mechanics.
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Peter Goddard (physicist)
Peter Goddard (born 3 September 1945) is a British mathematical physicist who works in string theory and conformal field theory.
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Physical cosmology
Physical cosmology is a branch of cosmology concerned with the study of cosmological models.
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Physical Review Letters
Physical Review Letters (PRL), established in 1958, is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal that is published 52 times per year by the American Physical Society.
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Physical system
A physical system is a collection of physical objects under study.
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Physics Today
Physics Today is the membership magazine of the American Institute of Physics.
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Pion
In particle physics, a pion or pi meson, denoted with the Greek letter pi, is any of three subatomic particles:,, and.
Planck constant
The Planck constant, or Planck's constant, denoted by is a fundamental physical constant of foundational importance in quantum mechanics: a photon's energy is equal to its frequency multiplied by the Planck constant, and the wavelength of a matter wave equals the Planck constant divided by the associated particle momentum.
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Point particle
A point particle, ideal particle or point-like particle (often spelled pointlike particle) is an idealization of particles heavily used in physics.
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Poisson bracket
In mathematics and classical mechanics, the Poisson bracket is an important binary operation in Hamiltonian mechanics, playing a central role in Hamilton's equations of motion, which govern the time evolution of a Hamiltonian dynamical system.
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Positron
The positron or antielectron is the particle with an electric charge of +1e, a spin of 1/2 (the same as the electron), and the same mass as an electron.
Post–World War I recession
The post–World War I recession was an economic recession that hit much of the world in the aftermath of World War I. In many nations, especially in North America, economic growth continued and even accelerated during World War I as nations mobilized their economies to fight the war in Europe.
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Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton is a borough in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Pseudoscalar meson
In high-energy physics, a pseudoscalar meson is a meson with total spin 0 and odd parity (usually notated as Pseudoscalar mesons are commonly seen in proton-proton scattering and proton-antiproton annihilation, and include the pion, kaon, eta, and eta prime particles, whose masses are known with great precision.
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Punch (magazine)
Punch, or The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells.
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Quantization (physics)
Quantisation (in American English quantization) is the systematic transition procedure from a classical understanding of physical phenomena to a newer understanding known as quantum mechanics.
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Quantum electrodynamics
In particle physics, quantum electrodynamics (QED) is the relativistic quantum field theory of electrodynamics.
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Quantum field theory
In theoretical physics, quantum field theory (QFT) is a theoretical framework that combines classical field theory, special relativity, and quantum mechanics.
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Quantum mechanics
Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory that describes the behavior of nature at and below the scale of atoms.
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Quantum optics
Quantum optics is a branch of atomic, molecular, and optical physics dealing with how individual quanta of light, known as photons, interact with atoms and molecules.
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Quark
A quark is a type of elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter.
Ralph H. Fowler
Sir Ralph Howard Fowler (17 January 1889 – 28 July 1944) was a British physicist, astronomer and physical chemist. Paul Dirac and Ralph H. Fowler are royal Medal winners.
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Renormalization
Renormalization is a collection of techniques in quantum field theory, statistical field theory, and the theory of self-similar geometric structures, that are used to treat infinities arising in calculated quantities by altering values of these quantities to compensate for effects of their self-interactions.
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Richard Feynman
Richard Phillips Feynman (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as his work in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model. Paul Dirac and Richard Feynman are Nobel laureates in Physics.
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Roger Penrose
Sir Roger Penrose, (born 8 August 1931) is a British mathematician, mathematical physicist, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics. Paul Dirac and Roger Penrose are 20th-century British physicists, British Nobel laureates, British quantum physicists, Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, mathematical physicists, members of the Order of Merit, Nobel laureates in Physics, Recipients of the Copley Medal and royal Medal winners.
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Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851
The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 is an institution founded in 1850 to administer the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, which was held in The Crystal Palace, London.
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Royal Medal
The Royal Medal, also known as The Queen's Medal and The King's Medal (depending on the gender of the monarch at the time of the award), is a silver-gilt medal, of which three are awarded each year by the Royal Society, two for "the most important contributions to the advancement of natural knowledge" and one for "distinguished contributions in the applied sciences", done within the Commonwealth of Nations.
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Royal Society
The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences.
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Saint-Maurice, Switzerland
Saint-Maurice is a city in the Swiss canton of Valais and the capital of the district of Saint-Maurice.
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Scalar field
In mathematics and physics, a scalar field is a function associating a single number to every point in a space – possibly physical space.
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Schrödinger equation
The Schrödinger equation is a partial differential equation that governs the wave function of a quantum-mechanical system.
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Schwinger's quantum action principle
The Schwinger's quantum action principle is a variational approach to quantum mechanics and quantum field theory.
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Scientific American
Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American popular science magazine.
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Scientific law
Scientific laws or laws of science are statements, based on repeated experiments or observations, that describe or predict a range of natural phenomena.
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Secaucus, New Jersey
Secaucus is a town in Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Semiconductor
A semiconductor is a material that has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor, such as copper, and an insulator, such as glass.
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Separative work units
Separative work – the amount of separation done by an enrichment process – is a function of the concentrations of the feedstock, the enriched output, and the depleted tailings; and is expressed in units which are so calculated as to be proportional to the total input (energy / machine operation time) and to the mass processed.
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Shin'ichirō Tomonaga
, usually cited as Sin-Itiro Tomonaga in English, was a Japanese physicist, influential in the development of quantum electrodynamics, work for which he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 along with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger. Paul Dirac and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga are Foreign Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars and Nobel laureates in Physics.
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Singapore
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.
Slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous, metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade, regional metamorphism.
Society of Merchant Venturers
The Society of Merchant Venturers is a charitable organisation in the English city of Bristol.
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Solvay Conference
The Solvay Conferences (Congrès Solvay) have been devoted to preeminent unsolved problems in both physics and chemistry.
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Special relativity
In physics, the special theory of relativity, or special relativity for short, is a scientific theory of the relationship between space and time.
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Spin (physics)
Spin is an intrinsic form of angular momentum carried by elementary particles, and thus by composite particles such as hadrons, atomic nuclei, and atoms.
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Spinor
In geometry and physics, spinors are elements of a complex number-based vector space that can be associated with Euclidean space.
Squeezed coherent state
In physics, a squeezed coherent state is a quantum state that is usually described by two non-commuting observables having continuous spectra of eigenvalues.
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St John's College, Cambridge
St John's College, formally the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge, is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, founded by the Tudor matriarch Lady Margaret Beaufort.
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Stanley Deser
Stanley Deser (March 19, 1931 – April 21, 2023) was an American physicist known for his contributions to general relativity.
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Stephen Hawking
Stephen William Hawking, (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. Paul Dirac and Stephen Hawking are 20th-century British physicists, Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, Lucasian Professors of Mathematics, members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and Recipients of the Copley Medal.
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String theory
In physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings.
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Superstring theory
Superstring theory is an attempt to explain all of the particles and fundamental forces of nature in one theory by modeling them as vibrations of tiny supersymmetric strings.
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Tallahassee, Florida
Tallahassee is the capital city of the U.S. state of Florida.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The History Press
The History Press is a British publishing company specialising in the publication of titles devoted to local and specialist history.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Principles of Quantum Mechanics
The Principles of Quantum Mechanics is an influential monograph on quantum mechanics written by Paul Dirac and first published by Oxford University Press in 1930.
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The Strangest Man
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius is a 2009 biography of quantum physicist Paul Dirac written by British physicist and author, Graham Farmelo, and published by Faber and Faber.
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Theoretical physics
Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain, and predict natural phenomena.
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Time evolution
Time evolution is the change of state brought about by the passage of time, applicable to systems with internal state (also called stateful systems).
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Tsung-Dao Lee
Tsung-Dao Lee (born November 24, 1926) is a Chinese-American physicist, known for his work on parity violation, the Lee–Yang theorem, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion (RHIC) physics, nontopological solitons, and soliton stars. Paul Dirac and Tsung-Dao Lee are members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and Nobel laureates in Physics.
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Tube Alloys
Tube Alloys was the research and development programme authorised by the United Kingdom, with participation from Canada, to develop nuclear weapons during the Second World War.
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Umdeutung paper
In the history of physics, "On the quantum-theoretical reinterpretation of kinematical and mechanical relationships" (Über quantentheoretische Umdeutung kinematischer und mechanischer Beziehungen), also known as the Umdeutung (reinterpretation) paper, was a breakthrough article in quantum mechanics written by Werner Heisenberg, which appeared in Zeitschrift für Physik in September 1925.
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University of Bristol
The University of Bristol is a red brick Russell Group research university in Bristol, England.
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University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.
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University of Miami
The University of Miami (UM, UMiami, Miami, U of M, and The U) is a private research university in Coral Gables, Florida.
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University of New South Wales
The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews (Oilthigh Chill Rìmhinn; abbreviated as St And, from the Latin Sancti Andreae, in post-nominals) is a public university in St Andrews, Scotland.
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University of Wisconsin–Madison
The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States.
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Vacuum polarization
In quantum field theory, and specifically quantum electrodynamics, vacuum polarization describes a process in which a background electromagnetic field produces virtual electron–positron pairs that change the distribution of charges and currents that generated the original electromagnetic field.
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Victor Weisskopf
Victor Frederick "Viki" Weisskopf (also spelled Viktor; September 19, 1908 – April 22, 2002) was an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist. Paul Dirac and Victor Weisskopf are Foreign Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences and Winners of the Max Planck Medal.
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Video codec
A video codec is software or hardware that compresses and decompresses digital video.
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Wave function
In quantum physics, a wave function (or wavefunction) is a mathematical description of the quantum state of an isolated quantum system.
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Werner Heisenberg
Werner Karl Heisenberg (5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976) was a German theoretical physicist, one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics, and a principal scientist in the Nazi nuclear weapons program during World War II. Paul Dirac and Werner Heisenberg are academic staff of the University of Göttingen, Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences, members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Nobel laureates in Physics and Winners of the Max Planck Medal.
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Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England.
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Wolfgang Pauli
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (25 April 1900 – 15 December 1958) was an Austrian theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics. Paul Dirac and Wolfgang Pauli are academic staff of the University of Göttingen, institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars, Nobel laureates in Physics and Winners of the Max Planck Medal.
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World Scientific
World Scientific Publishing is an academic publisher of scientific, technical, and medical books and journals headquartered in Singapore.
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Yang–Mills theory
Yang–Mills theory is a quantum field theory for nuclear binding devised by Chen Ning Yang and Robert Mills in 1953, as well as a generic term for the class of similar theories.
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Yeshiva University
Yeshiva University is a private Orthodox Jewish university with four campuses in New York City.
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1851 Research Fellowship
The 1851 Research Fellowship is a scheme conducted by the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 to annually award a three-year research scholarship to approximately eight "young scientists or engineers of exceptional promise".
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See also
British people of Swiss descent
- A. J. Ayer
- Adam Jacot de Boinod
- Basil Eugster
- Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy
- Callum Voisin
- Cecil Fane De Salis
- Charles William Heckethorn
- Chioma Nnadi
- Claire Bertschinger
- David Lunn-Rockliffe
- E. V. Rieu
- Edgar Mittelholzer
- Erwin Gabathuler
- Gai Eaton
- Henry Jerome de Salis
- James Leuzinger
- Jeannette Altwegg
- Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio
- Jocelyn Percy
- Johann Hari
- John Eugène, 8th Count de Salis-Soglio
- John Francis William, 6th Count de Salis-Soglio
- John Indermaur
- John de Salis, 9th Count de Salis-Soglio
- Joseph Moser
- Joseph Planta (politician)
- Leonard Forrer
- Leopold Fane De Salis
- Lewis Vulliamy
- Louis Rieu
- Marguerite, Baroness de Reuter
- Mariann Bienz
- Max Wenner
- Muzio Clementi
- Oliver Dimsdale
- Paul Dirac
- Peter Arne
- Peter Mark Roget
- Peter, 3rd Count de Salis
- Peter, 5th Count de Salis-Soglio
- Rodolph Fane De Salis
- Rosie Swale-Pope
- Rosina Zornlin
- Rudolf Alfred Bosshardt
- Samuel Gobat
- Sir John Brunner, 1st Baronet
- Sir John Brunner, 2nd Baronet
- Vulliamy family
- William Fane De Salis (Royal Navy officer)
British quantum physicists
- Antony Valentini
- Basil Hiley
- David Deutsch
- Freeman Dyson
- H. Stanley Allen
- Hugh Osborn
- Jim Al-Khalili
- John Rarity
- John Stewart Bell
- Jonathan Oppenheim
- Libby Heaney
- Lucien Hardy
- Maurice Pryce
- Michael D. Towler
- Paul Davies
- Paul Dirac
- Peter R. Holland
- Ray Streater
- Roger Penrose
- Sandu Popescu
- Terry Rudolph
Lucasian Professors of Mathematics
- Charles Babbage
- Edward Waring
- George Biddell Airy
- Isaac Barrow
- Isaac Milner
- Isaac Newton
- James Lighthill
- John Colson
- Joseph Larmor
- Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
- Michael Cates
- Michael Green (physicist)
- Paul Dirac
- Robert Woodhouse
- Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
- Stephen Hawking
- Thomas Turton
- William Whiston
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