Article ID: CBB799632630

What Became of Paul Dirac’s Classmate? (2018)

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We examine Paul Dirac’s early life in Bristol and the link with his classmate Herbert Charles Wiltshire. We outline Wiltshire’s subsequent career using archives and the few letters which survive between Dirac and Wiltshire.

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Authors & Contributors
Maligranda, Lech
Beckers, Danny
Genna, Caterina
Terepeta, Małgorzata
Jóźwik, Izabela
Ferdinand Verhulst
Journals
Studium: Tijdschrift voor Wetenschaps- en Universiteitgeschiedenis
Historia Mathematica
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Revue d'Histoire des Mathématiques
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
European Physical Journal H
Publishers
Universidad de la Rioja (Spain)
Springer Science + Business Media
Routledge
Prometheus
Oxford University Press
Franco Angeli
Concepts
Biographies
Mathematics
Physics
Quantum mechanics
Epistemology
History of science, as a discipline
People
Poincaré, Jules Henri
Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice
Kempisty, Stefan
Afanassieva, Tatiana Alekseevna (Ehrenfest)
Hurwitz, Julius
Struik, Dirk Jan
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
20th century
18th century
Places
Netherlands
Bristol (England)
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Great Britain
Hanover (Germany)
Naples (Italy)
Institutions
Bristol Pneumatic Institute
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