Abstract

Eighty years ago theoretical physicists had a problem: they lacked a mathematical description of elementary particles that was consistent with the principles of both Einstein's special theory of relativity and the newly formed theory of quantum mechanics. In 1927 Erwin Schrödinger had written down the quantum mechanical equation of motion for the electron, but this did not take into account the fact that electrons are relativistic particles. Troubled by this situation, Paul Dirac set about finding a solution.

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