Paul Dirac is famous as the creator of the complete theoretical formulation of quantum mechanics. He was born in Bristol, England on 8 August 1902 and died in Tallahassee, Florida on 20 October 1984. He introduced the delta function to physics, a mathematical device that stands for a point concentration of unit mass or charge, and the Dirac delta function is named after him. He was one of three children, grew up in Bristol, and his Swiss father taught French at a school there.
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Paul Dirac is famous as the creator of the complete theoretical formulation of quantum mechanics.
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The delta function is named after physicist Paul Dirac, and has been applied routinely in physics and engineering to model point masses and concentrated loads
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