Paul Dirac: a physicist of few words

摘要

Among scientists, Paul Dirac is widely regarded as being in the same league as Albert Einstein. In London's Westminster Abbey, Dirac s eponymous equation describing the quantum behaviour of electrons is set in stone. But in his home town of Bristol, UK, his reputation is overshadowed by that of his fellow student at the Bishop Road School, Archie Leach - better known as the film star Cary Grant. On asking the Bristol Record Office for material about Dirac for his new book, author Graham Farmelo received the response: "Who?"