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srean•about 10 hours ago

One of my favorite photographs. It captures their characters so well.

rramadass•about 9 hours ago

Nice; the quintessential Theoretical/Mathematical Physicist!

The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strangest_Man

Read his lecture/essay; The Relation between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac - https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/events/strings02/dirac/speach.ht...

Wikipedia also has a nice general overview; Relationship between Mathematics and Physics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_between_mathemati...

signa11•about 9 hours ago

aside: for feynman, mr. oppenheimer said "he is a second Dirac, only this time human".

Paul A. M. Dirac, Interview by Friedrich Hund (1982) [video]