In 1928, Dirac proposed his relativistic wave equation for electrons 33.This was a watershed event in theoretical physics, leading to a new understanding of spin, predicting the existence of ...

The prediction of the Dirac equation that the electron must have ... the first half of the twentieth century over the fundamental meaning of quantum mechanics, with particular focus on the lives ...

The British physicist Paul Dirac started the ball rolling in the late 1920s with his equation describing how relativistic electrons – and with it most other matter particles – behave.