Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On a navy blue background is the book cover of 'The One Thing You Need to Know: 21 Key Scientific Concepts of the 21st Century' by ...

Theoretical physicist Paul Dirac believed the universe is built using advanced mathematics. He saw this order as the work of ...

It’s probably because he was born and raised in Bristol, UK – the city where Physics World is based – that my colleagues and I perhaps give a disproportionate amount of coverage to Paul Dirac compared ...

Paul Dirac was one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics, and perhaps the greatest British theoretical physicist since Isaac Newton. After he predicted, with no clues from experiment, the existence of ...

THE STRANGEST MAN: THE HIDDEN LIFE OF PAUL DIRAC, MYSTIC OF THE ATOM Graham Farmelo Basic Books, 539 pp., $29.95 The British physicist Paul Dirac (1902-84), a winner of the Nobel Prize, is generally ...

New research using a decommissioned section of the beam pipe from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has brought scientists closer than ever before to test whether magnetic monopoles exist.

Award-winning writer and physicist Graham Farmelo talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky (pictured) about The Strangest Man, Farmelo's biography of Nobel Prize–winning theoretical physicist Paul Dirac.