Wednesday, August 04, 2010

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Biography

“I can find my biography in every fable that I read.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Paul Dirac

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM, FRS (pronounced /dɪˈræk/ di-RAK; 8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984) was a British theoretical physicist. Dirac made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. He held the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and spent the last fourteen years of his life at Florida State University.

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LATEST ARRIVALS

Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius by Graham Farmelo

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