| Paul Dirac  AKA Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
Born: 8-Aug-1902
Birthplace: Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Died: 20-Oct-1984
Location of death: Tallahassee, FL
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Executive summary: The Principles of Quantum Mechanics Father: Charles Adrien Ladislas Dirac (Swiss)
Mother: Florence Hannah Holten (from Cornwall)
Brother: Reginald Charles Felix Dirac (older, d. suicide)
Sister: Beatrice Isabelle Marguerite Walla Dirac (younger)
Wife: Margit Wigner (sister of Eugene Paul Wigner, m. Jan-1937)
Daughter: Judith Direc (stepdaughter, adopted)
Son: Gabriel Andrew Dirac (mathematician, stepson, adopted)
High School: Merchant Venturers Technical College (1918)
University: BS Engineering, University of Bristol (1921)
University: PhD, Cambridge University (1926)
Scholar: University of Copenhagen (with Niels Bohr, 1926-7)
Scholar: University of Göttingen (1927)
Professor: Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, University of Cambridge (1932-59)
Professor: University of Miami Florida
Professor: Florida State University
Nobel Prize for Physics 1933 (shared with Erwin Schrödinger)
Royal Medal 1939
Copley Medal 1952
Max Planck Medal 1952
American Physical Society 1948
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Royal Society 1930
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