Paul Dirac
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label: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
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doctoral students: John Polkinghorne
doctoral students: Homi J. Bhabha
doctoral students: Richard J. Eden
doctoral students: C. J. Eliezer
doctoral students: Harish-Chandra
doctoral students: Dennis Sciama
doctoral advisor: Ralph H. Fowler
subject: Category:Recipients of the Copley Medal
subject: Category:British Nobel laureates
subject: Category:English Nobel laureates
subject: Category:Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars
subject: Category:University of Miami faculty
subject: Category:Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
subject: Category:Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
subject: Category:Foreign members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
subject: Category:British quantum physicists
subject: Category:Florida State University faculty
subject: Category:1902 births
subject: Category:Lucasian Professors of Mathematics
subject: Category:Members of the American Philosophical Society
subject: Category:Members of the Order of Merit
subject: Category:Scientists from Bristol
subject: Category:British people of Swiss descent
subject: Category:British mathematical physicists
subject: Category:Fellows of the Royal Society
subject: Category:20th-century English mathematicians
subject: Category:Members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
subject: Category:Paul Dirac
subject: Category:Alumni of the University of Bristol
subject: Category:British theoretical physicists
subject: Category:1984 deaths
subject: Category:Royal Medal winners
subject: Category:Winners of the Max Planck Medal
subject: Category:20th-century British physicists
subject: Category:Nobel laureates in Physics
subject: Category:Academic staff of the University of Göttingen
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known for: Dirac equation
known for: Founding quantum electrodynamics
known for: Introducing the
known for: Postulating the
known for: magnetic monopole
known for: bra–ket notation
known for: Fermi–Dirac statistics
child: Gabriel Andrew Dirac
spouse: Margit Wigner
awards: Copley Medal
awards: Nobel Prize in Physics
awards: Max Planck Medal
awards: FRS
awards: Royal Medal
birth name: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
education: Merchant Venturers' Technical College
education: Bishop Road Primary School
alma mater: Bachelor of Science
alma mater: Bachelor of Arts
alma mater: University of Bristol