In Our Time: Science

Paul Dirac


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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the theoretical physicist Dirac (1902-1984), whose achievements far exceed his general fame. To his peers, he was ranked with Einstein and, when he moved to America in his retirement, he was welcomed as if he were Shakespeare. Born in Bristol, he trained as an engineer before developing theories in his twenties that changed the understanding of quantum mechanics, bringing him a Nobel Prize in 1933 which he shared with Erwin Schrödinger. He continued to make deep contributions, bringing abstract maths to physics, beyond predicting anti-particles as he did in his Dirac Equation.

With

Graham Farmelo

Biographer of Dirac and Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge

Valerie Gibson

Professor of High Energy Physics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College

And

David Berman

Professor of Theoretical Physics at Queen Mary University of London

Producer: Simon Tillotson

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