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Dirac was like a physicist's physicist. Feynman mentioned working with him every chance he got.

He was also super duper weird! I don't know if you've heard this anecdote or not, but his colleagues coined "a dirac", or one spoken word per hour.

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Wow. Did not know that!

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The great thing is that a quick glance like you or I provide can pique someone's curiosity, then they can go find all kinds of crazy stuff out. Physicists are almost always really interesting behind the surface!

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"Heisenberg and Schrödinger can claim to have caught the first glimpses of the theory of Quantum Physics. But it was Paul Dirac who put them together and revealed the whole picture." / Stephen Hawking/

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