1902 - 1984
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (; 8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984) was an English theoretical physicist who is regarded as one of the most significant physicists of the 20th century.Dirac made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. Among other discoveries, he formulated the Dirac equation which describes the behaviour of fermions and predicted the existence of antimatter. Dirac shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics with Erwin Schrödinger "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory". Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Dirac has received more than 2,195,551 page views. His biography is available in 96 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 94 in 2019). Paul Dirac is the 44th most popular physicist (down from 32nd in 2019), the 144th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 103rd 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 44 out of 721. Before him are Andrei Sakharov, Lise Meitner, Pieter Zeeman, Léon Foucault, Philipp Lenard, and Ludwig Boltzmann. After him are Hermann von Helmholtz, Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Christian Doppler, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, William Gilbert, and Georges Lemaître.
1921 - 1989
HPI: 79.31
Rank: 38
1878 - 1968
HPI: 79.30
Rank: 39
1865 - 1943
HPI: 79.22
Rank: 40
1819 - 1868
HPI: 79.16
Rank: 41
1862 - 1947
HPI: 79.12
Rank: 42
1844 - 1906
HPI: 79.04
Rank: 43
1902 - 1984
HPI: 79.01
Rank: 44
1821 - 1894
HPI: 78.99
Rank: 45
1837 - 1923
HPI: 78.75
Rank: 46
1803 - 1853
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 47
1853 - 1926
HPI: 78.66
Rank: 48
1544 - 1603
HPI: 78.58
Rank: 49
1894 - 1966
HPI: 78.33
Rank: 50
Among people born in 1902, Paul Dirac ranks 10. Before him are Erik Erikson, John Steinbeck, Carl Rogers, Leni Riefenstahl, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Ray Kroc. After him are Talcott Parsons, Halldór Laxness, Fernand Braudel, Georgy Malenkov, Nâzım Hikmet, and Saud of Saudi Arabia. Among people deceased in 1984, Paul Dirac ranks 7. Before him are Michel Foucault, Richard Burton, Yuri Andropov, Indira Gandhi, Ray Kroc, and François Truffaut. After him are Johnny Weissmuller, Ed Gein, Truman Capote, Martin Niemöller, Mikhail Sholokhov, and Marvin Gaye.
1902 - 1994
HPI: 81.41
Rank: 4
1902 - 1968
HPI: 80.60
Rank: 5
1902 - 1987
HPI: 80.56
Rank: 6
1902 - 2003
HPI: 80.52
Rank: 7
1902 - 1991
HPI: 79.87
Rank: 8
1902 - 1984
HPI: 79.80
Rank: 9
1902 - 1984
HPI: 79.01
Rank: 10
1902 - 1979
HPI: 78.58
Rank: 11
1902 - 1998
HPI: 78.39
Rank: 12
1902 - 1985
HPI: 77.70
Rank: 13
1902 - 1988
HPI: 77.56
Rank: 14
1902 - 1963
HPI: 76.79
Rank: 15
1902 - 1969
HPI: 76.67
Rank: 16
1926 - 1984
HPI: 84.34
Rank: 1
1925 - 1984
HPI: 83.54
Rank: 2
1914 - 1984
HPI: 82.11
Rank: 3
1917 - 1984
HPI: 80.94
Rank: 4
1902 - 1984
HPI: 79.80
Rank: 5
1932 - 1984
HPI: 79.22
Rank: 6
1902 - 1984
HPI: 79.01
Rank: 7
1904 - 1984
HPI: 77.71
Rank: 8
1906 - 1984
HPI: 76.57
Rank: 9
1924 - 1984
HPI: 76.50
Rank: 10
1892 - 1984
HPI: 76.40
Rank: 11
1905 - 1984
HPI: 76.10
Rank: 12
1939 - 1984
HPI: 75.92
Rank: 13
Among people born in United Kingdom, Paul Dirac ranks 144 out of 6,924. Before him are Judi Dench (1934), Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (1857), Brian May (1947), Henry IV of England (1367), John Wycliffe (1324), and Bernard Montgomery (1887). After him are Victoria, Princess Royal (1840), Edward the Elder (871), Anthony Eden (1897), Roald Dahl (1916), Duns Scotus (1265), and Robert the Bruce (1274).
1934 - Present
HPI: 79.14
Rank: 138
1857 - 1944
HPI: 79.14
Rank: 139
1947 - Present
HPI: 79.14
Rank: 140
1367 - 1413
HPI: 79.11
Rank: 141
1324 - 1384
HPI: 79.05
Rank: 142
1887 - 1976
HPI: 79.03
Rank: 143
1902 - 1984
HPI: 79.01
Rank: 144
1840 - 1901
HPI: 79.01
Rank: 145
871 - 924
HPI: 79.00
Rank: 146
1897 - 1977
HPI: 78.97
Rank: 147
1916 - 1990
HPI: 78.96
Rank: 148
1265 - 1308
HPI: 78.90
Rank: 149
1274 - 1329
HPI: 78.87
Rank: 150
Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Paul Dirac ranks 8. Before him are Stephen Hawking (1942), Michael Faraday (1791), James Prescott Joule (1818), James Clerk Maxwell (1831), Robert Hooke (1635), and J. J. Thomson (1856). After him are William Gilbert (1544), James Chadwick (1891), William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842), and Peter Higgs (1929).
1942 - 2018
HPI: 89.32
Rank: 2
1791 - 1867
HPI: 88.23
Rank: 3
1818 - 1889
HPI: 85.04
Rank: 4
1831 - 1879
HPI: 84.76
Rank: 5
1635 - 1703
HPI: 84.49
Rank: 6
1856 - 1940
HPI: 80.46
Rank: 7
1902 - 1984
HPI: 79.01
Rank: 8
1544 - 1603
HPI: 78.58
Rank: 9
1891 - 1974
HPI: 78.31
Rank: 10
1824 - 1907
HPI: 77.83
Rank: 11
1869 - 1959
HPI: 77.24
Rank: 12
1842 - 1919
HPI: 76.60
Rank: 13
1929 - Present
HPI: 76.38
Rank: 14