The English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is described as having made fundamental contributions to the early development of what?
Quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics Dirac shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics with Erwin Schrödinger "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory". He also made significant contributions to the reconciliation of general relativity with quantum mechanics. The Dirac equation describes the behaviour of fermions and predicts the existence of antimatter.
Who is the New Zealand-born physicist whose discoveries include most of the great advances in physics between 1899 and 1930?
In 1938, after receiving the Nobel Prize, which physicist emigrated to the USA, protesting the oppressive regime of his homeland?
