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Paul Dirac, 1933
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Nobel Foundation
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12. Tagung 1962 Physik; Maikäferrede- Paul Dirac Porträt - LABW - Staatsarchiv Freiburg W 134 Nr. 069619
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Willy Pragher
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15. Tagung 1965 Physiker; Maikäferrede Paul Dirac - W134Nr.078981 - Willy Pragher
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狄拉克

Dílākè
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Paul Dirac
  2. 2 British theoretical physicist, 1933 Nobel laureate

About Paul Dirac

1902–1984 · 科学家 scientist

British physicist whose 狄拉克方程 (Dirac equation) joined quantum mechanics with relativity and predicted antimatter. He shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics with Schrödinger.

Also called  保罗·狄拉克

Examples

HSK 7-9
Dílākè fāngchéng yùyán le fǎn wùzhì de cúnzài.
The Dirac equation predicted the existence of antimatter.
HSK 7-9
Dílākè yǔ Xuē dìng è gòngtóng huòdé 1933 nián Nuòbèi'ěr Wùlǐxué Jiǎng.
Dirac and Schrödinger jointly won the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Tips

culture
He was famously silent: Cambridge colleagues joked about a unit called the 'dirac', one word per hour. Chinese physics students meet his name daily in 狄拉克符号, the bra-ket notation he invented for quantum states.

Stroke Order

狄 dí
拉 lā
克 kè