Strange Genius: The Life and Times of Paul Dirac
Thursday, November 26, 2009, 4:00 PM GMT (Central Europe 5:00pm, East Coast US 11:00am)
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Paul Dirac was one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics, and perhaps the greatest British theoretical physicist since Isaac Newton. After he predicted, with no clues from experiment, the existence of antimatter, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1933, when he was the youngest theoretician to win the award. Dirac was also pathologically reticent, extraordinarily literal-minded and almost unable to empathize with most people, even his family.
Join Graham Farmelo for the inaugural webinar in the Physics World Online Lecture Series as he celebrates Dirac's huge scientific achievement and legacy, and offers a portrait of Dirac's extraordinary life.
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Lecturer: Graham Farmelo, senior research fellow, Science Museum, London Graham Farmelo is Senior Research Fellow at the Science Museum, London, and Adjunct Professor of Physics at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. Formerly a theoretical physicist, he is now an international consultant in science communication. He edited the best-selling It Must be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science in 2002. He lives in London.
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