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Archival as AuthorArchival as SubjectPublished as AuthorPublished as SubjectP. A. M. Dirac
Dates
August 08, 1902 – October 20, 1984
Authorized Form of Name
Dirac, P. A. M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984
Additional Forms of Names
Dirac, Paul, 1902-1984
Dirac, Paul A. M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984
Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice
Dirak, Pol', 1902-1984
Дирак, Поль Адриен Морис, 1902-1984
بول, ديراك, 1902-1984
ديراك, بول, 1902-1984
Biography
Abstract
Paul A.M. Dirac was a quantum mechanics physicist at the University of Cambridge. He was awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory."
Important Dates
August 08, 1902Birth, Bristol (England).
1921Obtained BSc in Engineering, Bristol University, Bristol (England).
1926Obtained Doctorate degree in Mathematics, St. John's College, Cambridge, Cambridge (England).
1927Fellow, St. John's College, Cambridge, Cambridge (England).
1928Wrote Quantum Theory of the Electron.
1929University Lecturer, St. John's College, Cambridge, Cambridge (England).
1930Member, Royal Society.
1930Awarded Royal Medal and Copley Medal, Royal Society.
1930Wrote The Principles of Quantum Mechanics.
1932 – 1969Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Cambridge University, Cambridge (England).
1933Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory".
1948Honorary Fellow, American Physical Society.
1952Awarded Max Planck Medal.
1961Member, Pontificia Accademia della scienze (Pontifical Academy of Sciences).
1969Awarded J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize, University of Miami.
1970 – 1972Visiting Professor (1970-1971) and Professor (1971-1972), Florida State University, Tallahassee, Tallahassee (Fla.).
1971Honorary Fellow, Institute of Physics.
1973Member, Order of Merit.
October 20, 1984Death, Tallahassee (Fla.).
Occupation
Quantum mechanics physicist.
Places
Birth
Undergraduate Education
Graduate Education
Employment
Death
Subjects
Relationships
People
Family
Dirac, Charles Adrien Ladislas
Father.
Dirac, Florence Hannah Holten
Mother.
Dirac, Margit Wigner
Wife.
Advisors & Collaborators
Eden, R. J. (Richard John)
Advised by Dirac at Cambridge University.
Fowler, R. H. (Ralph Howard), 1889-1994
PhD advisor at Cambridge University.
Hoyle, Fred, 1915-2001
Advised by Dirac at Cambridge University.
Hurley, Andrew Crowther,
Advised by Dirac at Trinity College.
Polkinghorne, J. C., 1930-
Advised by Dirac at Cambridge University.
Shared Nobel Prize in Physics 1933 "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory."
Sciama, D. W. (Dennis William), 1926-
Advised by Dirac at Cambridge University.
Weisskopf, Victor Frederick, 1908-2002
Advised by Dirac at Cambridge University.
Additional
Anderson, Carl D. (Carl David), 1905-1991
Bacher, Robert F. (Robert Fox), 1905-2004
Barut, A. O. (Asim Orhan), 1926-
Beck, Guido, 1903-1988
Belyaev, Alexander
Blackett, P. M. S. (Patrick Maynard Stuart), Baron Blackett, 1897-1974
Bohr, Margrethe
Burbidge, Geoffrey R.
Burgers, J. M. (Johannes Martinus), 1895-1981
Casimir, H. B. G. (Hendrik Brugt Gerhard), 1909-2000
Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995
Cunningham, Ebenezer
Dalitz, R. H. (Richard Henry), 1925-2006
Dennison, David M. (David Mathias), 1900-1976
Doust, Paul
Ewald, Paul Peter, 1888-1985
Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988
Fok, V. A. (Vladimir Aleksandrovich), 1898-1974
Gamow, Barbara, 1905-1976
Garstang, Roy Henry
Gerlach, Walther, 1889-1979
Goldberg, Joshua N.
Heitler, Walter, 1904-
Hoddeson, Lillian
Hoyt, Frank Clark, 1898-
Jeffreys, Bertha Swirles
Kapitsa, P. L. (Petr Leonidovich), 1894-1984
Klein, Oskar
Kozhevnikov, A. B.
Kragh, Helge, 1944-
Kursunoglu, Behram, 1922-
Lannutti, J. E.
McCrea, William Hunter
McVittie, George C. (George Cunliffe)
Mehra, Jagdish
Morse, Philip M. (Philip McCord), 1903-1985
Mott, N. F. (Nevill Francis), Sir, 1905-1996
Moyal, Jose Enrique
Newman, M. H. A. (Maxwell Herman Alexander), 1897-
Occhialini, Giuseppe, 1907-1993
Oliphant, Mark, 1901-2000
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
Pais, Abraham, 1918-2000
Papapetrou, Achilles
Paul, Harry, 1931-
Peebles, P. J. E. (Phillip James Edwin)
Petersen, Aage
Pirani, F. A. E. (Felix Arnold Edward), 1928-2015
Plaskett, Harry Hemley, 1893-
Rabi, I. I. (Isidor Isaac), 1898-1988
Rado, Richard, 1906-
Rechenberg, Helmut
Richardson, O. W. (Owen Willans), 1879-1959
Rosenfeld, L. (Leon), 1904-1974
Saha, Meghnad, 1893-1956
Sard, R. D., 1915-
Saslaw, William C.
Schild, Alfred
Slater, John C. (John Clarke), 1900-1976
Tamm, I. E. (Igor' Evgen'evich), 1895-1971
Thomas, Llewellyn Hilleth, 1903-1992
Thomson, G. P. (George Paget), 1892-1975
Thomson, J. J. (Joseph John), 1856-1940
Touschek, Bruno, 1921-
Uhlenbeck, George Eugène, 1900-1988
Van der Merwe, Alwyn
Van Vleck, J. H. (John Hasbrouck), 1899-1980
Veblen, Oswald, 1880-1960
Vigier, Jean-Pierre, 1920-
Waller, Ivar, 1898-1991
Walton, Alan J.
Weizsacker, Carl Friedrich, Freiherr von, 1912-2007
Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008
Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995
Wu, Ta-you
Institutions
Major Positions
Florida State University
Visiting Professor and Professor.
St. John's College (University of Cambridge)
Obtained Doctorate degree in Mathematics (1926). Fellow and University Lecturer.
University of Cambridge
Lucasian Professor.
Professional Activities & Affiliations
Honorary Fellow.
Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.)
Institute of Physics (Great Britain)
Honorary Fellow.
International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Pontificia Accademia delle scienze
Member.
Royal Society (Great Britain)
Member. Awarded the Royal Medal and Copley Medal.
University of Bristol
Obtained BSc in Engineering (1921).
University of Hawaii at Manoa. Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Miami
Awarded 1969 J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize.
Resources
Archival Resources
Author
Archives Centre.
Churchill College
Cambridge CB3 0DS
Commemorating the 40th anniversary [computer file]/ 2002.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Fritz Rohrlich notes from the Pocono Conference on Physics, 1948.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with P. A. M. Dirac, 1962 April 1, 1963 May 6, 7, 10 and 14.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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P. A. M. Dirac papers, 1788-1999 (bulk 1924-1984).
Paul A. M. Dirac Science Library
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
P. A. M. Dirac papers, 1953-1981.
Royal Society
6 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG, England UK
Palmer Physical Laboratory Colloquia [sound recording], 1962 and 1966.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Paul Dirac correspondence with I. E. Tamm, 1928-1932.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Paul Dirac Developments in quantum electrodynamics, 1946.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Paul Dirac Does conservation of energy hold in atomic processes?, 1936.
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American Institute of Physics
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Paul Dirac lectures on quantum electrodynamics, 1934-1935.
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American Institute of Physics
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Paul Dirac reprints, 1928-1952.
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American Institute of Physics
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Projective geometry: origin of quantum equations [sound recording], 1972 October 30.
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American Institute of Physics
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University of Miami. Center for Theoretical Studies J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize acceptance speeches, 1969-1973.
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American Institute of Physics
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Subject
Aage Petersen collection of reprints and manuscripts, 1922-1976.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Abraham Pais papers, 1875 -2000 (bulk 1936-1998).
Rockefeller Archive Center
15 Dayton Ave., Pocantico Hills, North Tarrytown, NY 10591-1598, USA
Achilles Papapetrou papers.
Archiv der Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Jägerstrasse 22/23, 10117 Berlin
Alfred Schild papers, 1915-1982.
Center for American History. University Archives
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78713, USA
Archive for the History of Quantum Physics, 1898-1950 (bulk).
Library
American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
Bruno Touschek papers, 1947-1978.
Departimento di Fisica
Università di Roma "La Sapienza"
Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
Carl Eckart papers, 1921-1973 (bulk 1935-1970).
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA
Dirac, Heisenberg, and the University of Hawaii: reminiscences of Heisenberg's and Dirac's 1929 visit to University of Hawaii, 1974.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Electronic Computer Project (ECP) records, 1940-1967.
Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center
Institute for Advanced Study
1 Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Faust, eine Historie, 1932.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
From a life of physics [motion picture]/ produced by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Trieste, Italy).
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
George and Barbara Gamow papers, 1915-1975 (bulk 1950-1975).
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA
Igor E. Tamm papers, 1921-1971.
In private hands
contact Tamm family
Moscow
Interference: questions and answers with Harry Paul, 2010.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Ivar Waller papers, circa 1912-1989.
Centrum för Vetenskapshistoria
Kungl. Svenska vetenskapsakademien
Stockholm, Sweden
J. H. Van Vleck papers, 1923-1959.
Library
American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
J. H. Van Vleck selected correspondence and notes [microform], 1923-1959, (bulk 1923-1938).
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American Institute of Physics
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John A. Wheeler notes from the Pocono Conference on Physics, 1948.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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John Von Neumann papers, 1912-1996 (bulk 1935-1957).
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA
Jose E. Moyal papers, 1944-1964.
Basser Library
Australian Academy of Science
GPO Box 783, Canberra, ACT 2601
Leon Rosenfeld papers, 1911-1974.
Niels Bohr Archive
Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen, Denmark
Lillian Hoddeson papers, 1904-2001.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
M. H. A. Newman papers, 1916-1984.
The Library
St. John's College
Cambridge CB2 1TP
M. N. Saha correspondence, 1920-1954.
Manuscript Division
Nehru Memorial Museum and Library
New Delhi
Niels Bohr collection of manuscripts by other authors, 1910-1961.
Niels Bohr Archive
Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen, Denmark
Niels Bohr scientific correspondence, supplement, 1910-1962.
Niels Bohr Archive
Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen, Denmark
O. W. Richardson papers, 1897-1959 (bulk 1920-1940).
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
University of Texas at Austin
P.O. Drawer 7219, Austin, TX 78713-7219, USA
Oral history interview P. J. E. Peebles, 1984 September 27.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Alan J. Walton, 2014 May 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Bertha Swirles, Lady Jeffreys, 1997 March.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Carl Anderson, 1966 June 30.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Carl Friedrich Weizsacker, 1963 July 9.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with D. W. Sciama, 1989 January 25.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with David Mathias Dennison, 1964 January 27, 28 and 30.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Denis William Sciama, 1978 April 14.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Dennis William Sciama, 1999 June 9.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Ebenezer Cunningham, 1963 June 19.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Emilio Gino Segrè, 1967 February 13.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Ernst Pascual Jordan, 1963 June 17, 18, 19 and 20.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1963 November 21 and December 3, 4.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1984 April 12.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Felix Bloch, 1964 May 14.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Felix Pirani, 2011 June 23.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Frank Clark Hoyt, 1964 April 28
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Geoffrey R. Burbidge, 1974 November 15.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with George C. McVittie, 1978 March 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with George Gamow, 1968 April 25 and 26.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Giuseppe Occhialini, 1971 April 5, 6, May 16, 17, and November 18.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Guido Beck, 1967 April 22.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Harry Hemley Plaskett, 1978 March 29.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir, 1963 July 5 and 6.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with I. I. Rabi, 1963 December 8.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1963 November 18 and 20.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with James Chadwick, 1969 April 15, 16, 17 and 20.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with John Archibald Wheeler, 1988 May 4, May 23 and November 28.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with John Clarke Slater, 1963 October 3 and 8.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Joshua Goldberg, 2011 March 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Léon Rosenfeld, 1963 July 1, 19, 22.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Llewellyn Hilleth Thomas, 1962 May 10.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Margrethe Norlund Bohr, 1963 January 23 and 30.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Maurice Goldhaber, 1967 January 10.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Max Born, 1960 June 1, 1962 October 17 and 18.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Niels Bohr, 1962 October 31, November 1, 7, 14, and 17.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Norman Ramsey, 1978 December 19, 1979 January 5 and 18.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Oskar Benjamin Klein, 1962 September 25 to 16 July 1963.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Otto Laporte, 1964 January 29 and 31.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with P. M. S. Blackett, 1962 December 17.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Paul Peter Ewald, 1968 May 17 and 24.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral History interview with Robert F. Bacher, 1981, 1983.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Oral history interview with S. Chandrasekhar, 1977 May 17, 18 and October 31.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Sir Fred Hoyle, 1989 August 15.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Sir Nevill Francis Mott, 1963 May 13.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Stanley Deser, 2011 March 12.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Steven Weinberg, 1988 May 5 and 10.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Ta-You Wu, 1977 February 5.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fok, 1967 October 11.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Walter Heitler, 1963 March 18 and 19.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with Walther Gerlach, 1963 February 18 and 23.
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American Institute of Physics
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Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with William Hunter McCrea, 1978 September 22.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oral history interview with William Saslaw, 2002 May 17 and 20.
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American Institute of Physics
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Oskar Klein papers, 1916-1970.
Niels Bohr Archive
Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen, Denmark
Oswald Veblen papers, 1881-1960 (bulk 1920-1960).
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA
Petr L. Kapitsa papers, 1920.
Institute of Physical Problems.
ul. A. N. Kosygina 2, Moscow 117973, Russia
Phillip M. Morse autobiographical data, circa 1962.
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American Institute of Physics
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Physicists I have known, 1974.
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Private collection.
In private hands
contact: Dr. Alladi Ramakrishna
Ekamara Niwas, Luz Chruch Road, Madras 600004
Pupin lecture: Physics colloquium, 1966 May 13.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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University Archives
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1408 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Richard Rado papers.
Department of Archives and Manuscripts
University of Reading
Whiteknights, Reading RG6 2AE, England UK
Roy Henry Garstang student notebooks, 1943-1951.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar papers, 1928-1995.
The Joseph Regenstein Library. Department of Special Collections
University of Chicago
1100 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
The reason for antiparticles [videorecording]: elementary particles and the laws of physics: the 1986 Dirac memorial lectures, 1986.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Towards the final laws of physics [videorecording]: Elementary particles and the laws of physics: the 1986 Dirac memorial lectures, 1986.
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American Institute of Physics
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V. A. Fok papers, 1919-1974.
St. Petersburg Branch. Archive
Russian Academy of Sciences
Universitetskaia hab., 1, Korp. 2, St. Petersburg 199034
Victor Weisskopf: My life as a physicist, circa 1971.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
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Wolfgang Pauli letters.
Bibliothek
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
ETH Zentrum, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Published Resources
Author
Aspects of quantum theory; edited by Abdus Salam and E. P. Wigner.
General theory of relativity/ P. A. M. Dirac.`
Lectures on quantum field theory, by P. A. M. Dirac.
Lectures on quantum mechanics, by Paul A.M. Dirac.
L'électron magnétique (théorie de Dirac) par Louis de Broglie.
Paul Dirac and Igor Tamm corrrespondence/ Commented by Alexei B. Kojevnikov.
The collected works of P.A.M. Dirac, 1924-1948/ edited by R.H. Dalitz.
The physicist's conception of nature/ edited by Jagdish Mehra; [symposium director: Jagdish Mehra].
The principles of quantum mechanics.
Subject
Dirac : a scientific biography/ Helge Kragh.
P.A.M. Dirac Encyclopaedia Britannica
Paul A.M. Dirac Nobel Prize Biography
Paul Dirac: the man and his work/ Abraham Pais ... [et al.]; edited by Peter Goddard.
Varying gravity: Dirac's legacy in cosmology and geophysics/ Helge Kragh.