Paul Dirac
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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was an English theoretical physicist who is considered to be one of the founders of quantum mechanics. Dirac laid the foundations for both quantum electrodynamics and quantum
Dirac in 1933
Paul and Manci Dirac in Copenhagen, July 1963
Portrait of Paul Dirac by Clara Ewald, 1939
The 1927 Solvay Conference in Brussels, a gathering of the world's top physicists. Dirac is in the centre of the middle row, seated behind Albert Einstein.
Erwin Schrödinger
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Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger, sometimes anglicised as Schroedinger or Schrodinger, was an Austrian theoretical physicist who developed fundamental results in quantum theory. In particular,
Paul Dirac
…Cambridge from 1932 to 1969, and a professor of physics at Florida State University from 1970 to 1984. Dirac shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics with Erwin Schrödinger "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory." Dirac graduated from the University of Bristol with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical…
Schrödinger in 1933
Schrödinger as a young man, c. 1914
Schrödinger (front row 2nd from right) and De Valera (front row 4th from left) at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1942
Schrödinger, photographed by Francis Simon