Dirac

American  

[dih-rak] / dɪˈræk /

noun

1. Paul Adrien Maurice, 1902–84, British physicist, in the U.S. after 1971: Nobel Prize 1933.

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Dirac British  

/ dɪˈræk /

noun

1. Paul Adrien Maurice. 1902–84, English physicist, noted for his work on the application of relativity to quantum mechanics and his prediction of electron spin and the positron: shared the Nobel prize for physics 1933

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Dirac Scientific  

/ dĭ-răk′ /

1. British mathematician and physicist who developed a mathematical interpretation of quantum mechanics with which he was able to provide the first correct description of electron behavior. For this work Dirac shared with Erwin Schrödinger the 1933 Nobel Prize for physics.

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Example Sentences

This remarkable effect occurs at a special condition known as the "Dirac point," where graphene sits at a boundary between being a metal and an insulator.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026

One was "matrix mechanics," developed by Werner Heisenberg and later expanded by Max Born, Paul Dirac, and others.

From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026

Many land owners now are battling fast-spreading eastern red cedar and juniper trees that are contributing to the grassland ecosystem collapse, says Dirac Twidwell, a rangeland ecologist at the University of Nebraska.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 2023

A great deal of persistent effort carried us through and eventually led to our measuring a phenomenon even more exciting than a Dirac point: another kind of singularity.

From Scientific American • Jun. 18, 2023

His confidence was based on the recent discovery by Dirac of the equation that governed the electron.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking