Dirac wurde kurz nach seiner Dissertation mit nur 24 Jahren weltbekannt, als er zeigen konnte, dass die beiden Formulierungen der Quantenmechanik von Werner Heisenberg und Erwin Schrödinger, um die sich beide heftig stritten, äquivalent waren. Nur zwei Jahre später entwickelte er die nach ihm benannte Dirac-Gleichung, die Einsteins Relativitätstheorie in die Quantenmechanik mit einbezog und mit dem Spin, einer rätselhaften Eigenschaft von Elementarteilchen, in Verbindung gebracht wird. 1933 erhielt er zusammen mit Schrödinger den Nobelpreis.
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Paul Dirac and the religion of mathematical beauty [45:43]
Veröffentlicht am 10.12.2013
Speaker: Graham Farmelo
Filmed at The Royal Society, London on Fri 04 Mar 2011 1pm - 2pm
http://royalsociety.org/events/2011/p...
http://royalsociety.org/events/2011/p...
Legendary Physicist and Florida State Professor Paul Dirac [3:59]
Hochgeladen am 20.10.2009
Paul A.M. Dirac was a giant of modern physics, one of the "founding fathers" of quantum mechanics. The video clip is from "Fifty Years of Florida State University", Part II.
Dirac Lecture 2011 - Beauty and truth:their intersection in mathematics and science [1:16:25]
Veröffentlicht am 27.03.2012
Lord Robert M. May Zoology Department, Oxford University, supported by the Royal Society of NSW & Australian Institute of Physics.
"In the mists of prehistory, it seems clear that our ancestors sought to make sense of their world through myth and magic, memorably associated with evocative cave paintings, stone circles, and the like. The Greeks attempt to understand the motions of heavenly bodies were constrained by essentially aesthetic ideas about the perfection of circles. Did the advent of the experimental method overturn this conjunction of truth with beauty? Dirac's equation speaks eloquently and amazingly to a contrary view. My talk will cover this general ground in an opinionated way."
"In the mists of prehistory, it seems clear that our ancestors sought to make sense of their world through myth and magic, memorably associated with evocative cave paintings, stone circles, and the like. The Greeks attempt to understand the motions of heavenly bodies were constrained by essentially aesthetic ideas about the perfection of circles. Did the advent of the experimental method overturn this conjunction of truth with beauty? Dirac's equation speaks eloquently and amazingly to a contrary view. My talk will cover this general ground in an opinionated way."
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