The salmon-coloured house in the centre of the photo is 15 Monk Road, the birthplace of Paul Dirac. This view of suburban Bristol is from our back window and would have been somewhat different in 1902 ...

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 ...

It’s hard to imagine a more formidable subject for a biographer. Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1902-84) was a pioneer of quantum theory in the 1920s and 1930s and fully as obscure and bizarre as that ...

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 ...

A detailed biography argues that the Nobel prizewinner's notorious reticence delayed experimentalists from discovering the antimatter that would confirm his elegant theory, explains Frank Close. Among ...

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 ...

In the first quarter of the 20th century, it was an intense time to be a physicist. It seemed like every day someone was coming out with a new theory that completely revolutionized our understanding ...

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.

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.