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Paul Adrian Maurice Dirac, Nobel Laureate (1902-1984)

Location: (1) the Bristol office of Institute of Physics Publishing

Unveiled: (1) 23 September 1997 by his daughter, Monica, and grand daughter Victoria

Branch: South Western

The inscription on the plaque reads:

This building was opened by Monica Dirac on 23 September 1997 and is named DIRAC HOUSE in honour of her father Paul Dirac OM HonFInstP FRS
"Of all physicists, Dirac has the purest soul"
Niels Bohr

Location: (2) 15 Monk Road, Bishopston area of Bristol, Dirac's birthplace.

Unveiled: 12 December 2000 by Councillor Graham Robertson, Lord mayor of Bristol.

Dirac was a theoretical physicist who was awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1933 jointly with Erwin Schrödinger "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory". He developed Heisenberg's quantum mechanics to make a theory of the electron and predicted the existence of the positron

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