Today is the birthday of Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (August 8, 1902 – October 20, 1984), theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum physics. Paul Dirac shared the Nobel Prize for physics in 1933 with Erwin Schrodinger "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory".
"There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world." - Paul Dirac
"In the fight between you and the world, back the world." - Paul Dirac
"Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star." - Paul Dirac
"God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world." - Paul Dirac
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Massive Bronze Age torc stolen from Ely Museum
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One of the largest gold torcs ever discovered was stolen from the Ely
Museum Tuesday. Thieves broke into the closed building in the wee hours on
the mornin...
9 hours ago
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