1933 Nobel Prize in Physics : Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

ram H singhal

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1933 was awarded jointly to Erwin Schrödinger and Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac “for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory.”

Paul Dirac published the first of his papers on “The Quantum Theory of the Electron” in 1928 , The Dirac equation, derived in those papers, is one of the most important equations in physics.

Paul Dirac ( 1902 – 1984 ) : the purest soul in physics

Paul Dirac with Werner Heisenberg in Chicago in 1929

Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress. – Paul Dirac

1953 at the 3rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting: Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Adolf Butenant, Paul Dirac, Graf Lennart Bernadotte, Cecil Powell und Max von Laue (left to right). Photo: Archive Stuhler.

Scientific progress is measured in units of courage, not intelligence. -Paul Dirac

Paul Dirac with his…

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1932 Nobel Prize in Physics : Werner Karl Heisenberg

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Werner Karl Heisenberg was a German theoretical physicist and one of the key pioneers of quantum mechanics , received the Nobel Prize for his  Uncertainty Principle — for year 1932.

“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”
― Werner Heisenberg, 

“Life’s essence should always be clearly noticeable behind the love, or the music, or the work.” ― Werner Heisenberg, 

“What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.”
― Werner Heisenberg, 

“Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word ‘understanding.”
― Werner Karl Heisenberg, 

“Ideas are not responsible for what men do with them.” Werner Heisenberg

— Werner Heisenberg (December 5, 1901–February 1, 1976) lurched into the ultimate unknown with absolute certainty:

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Nobel Prize 1930 in Physics

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Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, ( 1988 – 1970 ) more popularly known as CV Raman the first Indian, Asian, Non-White person to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 for his pioneering work on scattering of light and  his contribution to science from ‘Raman Effect’  to ‘Raman lines .

India honoured Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Bharat Ratna , the Highest Civilian Award of the Country in 1954 .

“All of us have seen that the sea appears blue, but we know from routine life experiences that water has no colour at all.

Have we ever thought why water acquires colour in rivers and seas?”

These were the few of the words while delivering lecture in Noble prize Ceremony.

A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea.

It seemed not unlikely that…

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