Analysis
Distributions: What Exactly is the Dirac Delta “Function”?
The theory of distributions , also known as generalized functions, often remains something of an enigma…
Dirac
Feynman
When Feynman met Dirac
Beloved late physicist Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988) first met his hero Paul Dirac (1902–1984) during Princeton University’s Bicentennial Celebration in 1946 and then again at least twice, in 1948 and 1962.
History
The Golden Age of Quantum Physics (1927)
The “most intelligent photograph ever taken”, as it is sometimes known, was captured during the Fifth Solvay International Conference on Electrons and Photons held in 1927 in Brussels, Belgium.