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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM, FRS (IPA: /dɪˈræk/) (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. Among other discoveries, he formulated the Dirac equation, which describes the behavior of fermions and which led to the prediction of the existence of antimatter. Dirac shared the Nobel Prize in physics for 1933 with Erwin Schrödinger, “for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory.”

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UserProfessor John Preskill - California Institute of Technology.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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The entropy of Hawking Radiation.

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HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 23 May 2022, 14:30-16:00

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UserProfessor Nathan Seiberg (Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton)..

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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Antimatter: Dirac's incredible prediction and its consequences

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UserProfessor Helen Quinn (Harvard).

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 09 May 2017, 14:30-16:00

"Too beautiful to be false"

UserProfessor Michael Green FRS (University of Cambridge).

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 10 June 2016, 14:30-16:00

What is an Electron?

UserProfessor Sir Michael Atiyah, University of Edinburgh.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 11 May 2015, 16:00-17:15

Paul Dirac and the Development of Quantum Theory

UserProfessor Peter Goddard, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and St John's College.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2014, 14:15-15:30

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UserProfessor François Englert - Université libre de Bruxelles.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 13 May 2013, 14:45-16:00

Is the end of the Standard Model nigh ?

UserProfessor John Ellis, FRS Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics - King's College London..

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2012, 14:45-16:00

The Nature of True Mathematical Physics

UserProfessor Ludwig Faddeev, Steklov Institute of Mathematics, St Petersburg.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 23 May 2011, 14:45-16:00

Phase Transitions: Scaling, Universality and Renormalization

UserProfessor Leo P. Kadanoff University of Chicago and Perimeter Institute.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 11 May 2010, 14:45-16:00

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ClockFriday 15 May 2009, 14:45-16:00

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