List of things named after Paul Dirac

Below is a list of things, primarily in the fields of mathematics and physics, named in honour of Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac.

Physics[edit]

• Dirac large numbers hypothesis
• Dirac monopole
• Dirac string
• Dirac's string trick

Quantum physics[edit]

Notations[edit]

• Dirac notation
• Dirac bracket

Equations and related objects[edit]

• Dirac adjoint
• Dirac cone
  • Dirac points
• Dirac constant, see reduced Planck constant
• Dirac–Coulomb–Breit Hamiltonian
• Dirac equation
  • Dirac equation in curved spacetime
  • Dirac equation in the algebra of physical space
  • Nonlinear Dirac equation
  • Two-body Dirac equations
• Dirac fermion
• Dirac field
• Dirac gauge
• Dirac hole theory
• Dirac Lagrangian
• Dirac matrices
• Dirac matter
• Dirac membrane
• Dirac picture
• Dirac sea
• Dirac spectrum
• Dirac spinor

Formalisms[edit]

• Fermi–Dirac statistics
• Dirac–von Neumann axioms

Effects[edit]

• Abraham–Lorentz–Dirac force
• Kapitsa–Dirac effect

Pure and applied mathematics[edit]

• Complete Fermi–Dirac integral
  • Incomplete Fermi–Dirac integral
• Dirac delta function
  • Dirac comb
  • Dirac measure
• Dirac operator
• Dirac algebra

Other uses[edit]

• 5997 Dirac, an asteroid
• The various Dirac Medals
• Dirac (software)
• DiRAC supercomputing research facility of the Science and Technology Facilities Council^[1]
• Dirac Science Library, at Florida State University
• Dirac road, Bristol, (51°28′40″N 2°34′43″W / 51.477897°N 2.578496°W / 51.477897; -2.578496).

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