Paul Dirac

Paul Dirac (1902-1984) was a British physicist who advanced quantum mechanics by applying it to Einstein's theory of relativity. His work on the Quantum wave equations predicted the existence of antimatter. In 1993, he shared the posthumous Nobel Prize with Erwin Schrödinger.

Biography
In 1928, Dirac described a new form of Schrödinger's wave equation for electrons. This led to him predicting a new class of matter called "anti-electrons", which had positive rather than negative charges. This work related to the first modern theory of antimatter.

He held the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge University from 1932 to 1969.

Fields of Physics

 * Quantum mechanics
 * Particle physics