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Paul Dirac

In Our Time: Science

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Dirac's Creativity

Was Dirac aware that he was changing the view of the world? He tried to, in some respects, explain it away. It took him some time to actually say there has to be a particle,. which is the same as an electron, much less en masse than the proton. So I think he took a real cautious approach. And he was really methodical in his workings and papers that came out at the time.

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