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Proceedings of the Dirac Centennial Symposium: Florida State University, Tallahassee, 6-7 December 2002

By Howard A. Baer , Alexander Belyaev

Book information

Publisher
World Scientific Publishing Company
Year
2004
ISBN
9789812384126, 981-238-412-X
Open Library ID
OL18838174M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9613680 bytes)
Pages
197\197
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11
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Description

Paul Adrian Maurice Dirac (1902–84) is one of the icons of modern physics. His work provided the mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics. He also made key contributions to quantum field theory and quantum statistical mechanics. He is perhaps best known for formulating the Dirac equation, a relativistic wave equation which described the properties of the electron, and also predicted the existence of anti-matter. He was awarded the Nobel prize in Physics in 1933 along with Erwin Schreodinger for his contributions to quantum theory. The Dirac Centennial Symposium held commemorated the contributions of Dirac to all areas of physics, and assessed their impact on frontier research. This invaluable book constitutes the proceedings of the symposium, containing articles by Leopold Halpern, Pierre Ramond, Frank Wilczek, Maurice Goldhaber, Jonathan Bagger, Joe Lykken, Roman Jackiw, Stanley Deser, Joe Polchinski, Andre Linde and others. A special contribution from Dirac's daughter Monica Dirac presents a portrait of Paul Dirac as father and family man.

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