Dirac

[ dih-rak ]

noun

1. Paul Adrien Maurice, 1902–84, British physicist, in the U.S. after 1971: Nobel Prize 1933.

Dirac

/ dɪˈræk /

noun

1. DiracPaul Adrien Maurice19021984MEnglishSCIENCE: physicist Paul Adrien Maurice. 1902–84, English physicist, noted for his work on the application of relativity to quantum mechanics and his prediction of electron spin and the positron: shared the Nobel prize for physics 1933

Dirac

/ dĭ-răk′ /

1. British mathematician and physicist who developed a mathematical interpretation of quantum mechanics with which he was able to provide the first correct description of electron behavior. For this work Dirac shared with Erwin Schrödinger the 1933 Nobel Prize for physics.

Example Sentences

While 2π is associated with completing a circle in mathematics, our measurements are about the geometric phase accumulated by the BEC's wave function after it completes a circle around either the Dirac or singular QBTP.

From Scientific American

Many land owners now are battling fast-spreading eastern red cedar and juniper trees that are contributing to the grassland ecosystem collapse, says Dirac Twidwell, a rangeland ecologist at the University of Nebraska.

From Seattle Times

Nearly a century ago the theorist Paul Dirac calculated a value, called g, for how much a charged particle should be affected by a magnetic field.

From Scientific American

Like real graphene, our artificial crystal has Dirac points in its band structure.

From Scientific American

In particular, the electron can be thought of as an excitation in a quantum field known as the Dirac field, and this field may be what carries the spin of the electron.

From Scientific American