1902 - 1984
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (; 8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984) was an English mathematical and theoretical physicist who is considered to be one of the founders of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. He is credited with laying the foundations of quantum field theory. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Dirac has received more than 2,920,971 page views. His biography is available in 98 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 96 in 2019). Paul Dirac is the 36th most popular physicist (up from 44th in 2019), the 128th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 144th in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Physicist.
Paul Dirac is most famous for his discovery of the equation that predicted the existence of antimatter.
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Among physicists, Paul Dirac ranks 36 out of 717. Before him are Ibn al-Haytham, Henry Cavendish, Gustav Kirchhoff, Louis de Broglie, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, and William Gilbert. After him are Léon Foucault, Lise Meitner, Pieter Zeeman, J. J. Thomson, Wolfgang Pauli, and Frédéric Joliot-Curie.
965 - 1039
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 30
1731 - 1810
HPI: 74.40
Rank: 31
1824 - 1887
HPI: 74.38
Rank: 32
1892 - 1987
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 33
1686 - 1736
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 34
1544 - 1603
HPI: 73.61
Rank: 35
1902 - 1984
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 36
1819 - 1868
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 37
1878 - 1968
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 38
1865 - 1943
HPI: 73.31
Rank: 39
1856 - 1940
HPI: 73.01
Rank: 40
1900 - 1958
HPI: 72.86
Rank: 41
1900 - 1958
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 42
Among people born in 1902, Paul Dirac ranks 6. Before him are Karl Popper, Charles Lindbergh, Ruhollah Khomeini, Erik Erikson, and Carl Rogers. After him are Leni Riefenstahl, Georgy Malenkov, John Steinbeck, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Talcott Parsons, and Halldór Laxness. Among people deceased in 1984, Paul Dirac ranks 6. Before him are Michel Foucault, Richard Burton, Yuri Andropov, Indira Gandhi, and François Truffaut. After him are Johnny Weissmuller, Martin Niemöller, Ray Kroc, Mikhail Sholokhov, Truman Capote, and Ed Gein.
1902 - 1994
HPI: 79.32
Rank: 1
1902 - 1974
HPI: 78.02
Rank: 2
1902 - 1989
HPI: 77.83
Rank: 3
1902 - 1994
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 4
1902 - 1987
HPI: 74.44
Rank: 5
1902 - 1984
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 6
1902 - 2003
HPI: 73.43
Rank: 7
1902 - 1988
HPI: 73.08
Rank: 8
1902 - 1968
HPI: 72.88
Rank: 9
1902 - 1991
HPI: 72.32
Rank: 10
1902 - 1979
HPI: 71.74
Rank: 11
1902 - 1998
HPI: 70.93
Rank: 12
1926 - 1984
HPI: 79.32
Rank: 1
1925 - 1984
HPI: 78.57
Rank: 2
1914 - 1984
HPI: 77.66
Rank: 3
1917 - 1984
HPI: 74.61
Rank: 4
1932 - 1984
HPI: 73.66
Rank: 5
1902 - 1984
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 6
1904 - 1984
HPI: 70.19
Rank: 7
1892 - 1984
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 8
1902 - 1984
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 9
1905 - 1984
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 10
1924 - 1984
HPI: 68.75
Rank: 11
1906 - 1984
HPI: 68.39
Rank: 12
Among people born in United Kingdom, Paul Dirac ranks 128 out of 7,765. Before him are Mick Jagger (1943), Lady Godiva (990), Blackbeard (1680), Robert the Bruce (1274), William Gilbert (1544), and Cary Grant (1904). After him are Christopher Lee (1922), Joseph Priestley (1733), Michael Caine (1933), Henry Purcell (1659), T. E. Lawrence (1888), and Olav V of Norway (1903).
1943 - Present
HPI: 73.82
Rank: 122
990 - 1067
HPI: 73.80
Rank: 123
1680 - 1718
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 124
1274 - 1329
HPI: 73.74
Rank: 125
1544 - 1603
HPI: 73.61
Rank: 126
1904 - 1986
HPI: 73.56
Rank: 127
1902 - 1984
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 128
1922 - 2015
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 129
1733 - 1804
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 130
1933 - Present
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 131
1659 - 1695
HPI: 73.25
Rank: 132
1888 - 1935
HPI: 73.17
Rank: 133
1903 - 1991
HPI: 73.07
Rank: 134
Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Paul Dirac ranks 8. Before him are Stephen Hawking (1942), Michael Faraday (1791), Robert Hooke (1635), James Prescott Joule (1818), James Clerk Maxwell (1831), and William Gilbert (1544). After him are J. J. Thomson (1856), Thomas Young (1773), James Chadwick (1891), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), Roger Penrose (1931), and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824).
1942 - 2018
HPI: 86.45
Rank: 2
1791 - 1867
HPI: 84.47
Rank: 3
1635 - 1703
HPI: 81.43
Rank: 4
1818 - 1889
HPI: 80.86
Rank: 5
1831 - 1879
HPI: 79.87
Rank: 6
1544 - 1603
HPI: 73.61
Rank: 7
1902 - 1984
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 8
1856 - 1940
HPI: 73.01
Rank: 9
1773 - 1829
HPI: 72.42
Rank: 10
1891 - 1974
HPI: 72.41
Rank: 11
1869 - 1959
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 12
1931 - Present
HPI: 69.71
Rank: 13
1824 - 1907
HPI: 69.64
Rank: 14