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Dirac

noun
1.
English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).  Synonym: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac.



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... showed that this particular bit of evidence was an exception. He insisted that "the basis of science lies in the experimental evidence, not in the pronouncements of authorities," which meant that any recourse to the theories of Einstein, Pauli, Dirac, Bohr, or Fermi was as silly as quoting Aristotle, Plato, or St. Thomas Aquinas. The only authority he ...
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Words linked to "Dirac" :   Fermi-Dirac statistics, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, nuclear physicist


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