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Competing With Einstein For The Greatest Scientist Of The 20th Century

“In mathematical theories the question of notation, while not of primary importance, is yet worthy of careful consideration, since a good notation can be of great value in helping the development of a theory, by making it easy to write down those quantities or combinations of quantities that are important, and difficult or impossible to write down those that are unimportant….”. P. A. M. Dirac (1939)

The Dirac Foundation was founded by Dr. Barry Robson in 1994 and consolidated in March 1995 to honor Professor Paul A. M. Dirac, to explore some of Professor Dirac’s broader ideas about the applications of his ideas outside of theoretical physics, about which he left some intriguing hints. For example, “The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers” (Paul A. M. Dirac, Nobel Prize Banquet Speech, 1933).