List of things named after Paul Dirac
Below is a list of things, primarily in the fields of mathematics and physics, named in honour of Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac.
Physics
[edit]- Dirac large numbers hypothesis
- Dirac monopole
- Dirac string
- Dirac's string trick
- Dirac–Born–Infeld action
- Dirac path integral[1]
- Dirac coordinates
Quantum physics
[edit]Notations
[edit]Equations and related objects
[edit]- Dirac adjoint
- Dirac cone
- Dirac constant, see reduced Planck constant
- Dirac–Coulomb–Breit Hamiltonian
- Dirac equation
- Dirac fermion
- Dirac field
- Dirac gauge
- Dirac hole theory
- Dirac Lagrangian
- Dirac matrices
- Dirac matter
- Dirac membrane
- Dirac picture
- Dirac sea
- Dirac spectrum
- Dirac spinor
Formalisms
[edit]Effects
[edit]Pure and applied mathematics
[edit]Other uses
[edit]- 5997 Dirac, an asteroid
- The various Dirac Medals
- Dirac (software)
- DiRAC supercomputing research facility of the Science and Technology Facilities Council[2]
- Dirac Science Library, at Florida State University
- Dirac road, Bristol, (51°28′40″N 2°34′43″W / 51.477897°N 2.578496°W).
References
[edit]- ^ Hari Dass, N. D. (2020-03-28). "Dirac and the Path Integral". arXiv:2003.12683 [physics.hist-ph].
- ^ "Distributed Research utilising Advanced Computing (DiRAC)". dirac.ac.uk.