Dirac on Camera: A Rare 1982 Interview with Friedrich Hund

Paul A. M. Dirac, Interview by Friedrich Hund (1982) [video]

A 1982 video interview in which physicist Paul A. M. Dirac sits down with Friedrich Hund. Dirac, a founder of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics, shared the Nobel Prize with Erwin Schrödinger in 1933. The conversation offers a rare chance to hear one of the field's most famously reticent figures in his own words.

  1. amai

    Dirac: "Yes, that is so."

  2. srean

    https://saemiller.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1A934B69-17...

    One of my favorite photographs. It captures their characters so well.

  3. rramadass

    Nice; the quintessential Theoretical/Mathematical Physicist!

    The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strangest_Man

    Paul Dirac Quotes - https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac

    Read his lecture/essay; The Relation between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac - https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/events/strings02/dirac/speach.ht...

    Wikipedia also has a nice general overview; Relationship between Mathematics and Physics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_between_mathemati...

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