What was Feynmans IQ?

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman talked about getting a 124 on the only IQ test he ever took. 124 is plenty bright — but Feynman was one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century; 124 is about 30 points off the lowest remotely plausible value.

Did Dirac speak German?

The Right Language Dirac believed that the language of quantum mechanics was not English. Neither was it German or Danish. The only language capable of explaining quantum mechanics was mathematics.

What did Dirac win the Nobel Prize for?

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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.”

Is a 125 IQ good?

An IQ score over 140 indicates that you’re a genius or nearly a genius, while 120 – 140 is classed as “very superior intelligence”. 110 – 119 is “superior intelligence”, while 90 – 109 is “normal or average intelligence”.

Why did Paul Dirac study the electron?

Dirac deemed that this tricky matter had to be understood, and decided to study the electron in complex space-time. In 1928 he published his now famous equation (see “ Paul Dirac: the purest soul in physics ” by Michael Berry Physics World February 1998 pp36-40).

When did Paul Dirac make his famous equation?

In 1928 he published his now famous equation (see “ Paul Dirac: the purest soul in physics ” by Michael Berry Physics World February 1998 pp36-40). The great novelty of the Dirac formalism was the introduction of the spinor, which is a mathematical function having four components.

What is Dirac’s theory of space-time?

Dirac was puzzled by an unprecedented property of space-time discovered by Lorentz in his studies of electromagnetic forces, whereby if space was real, time had to be imaginary, and vice versa. In other words, space and time had to be a “complex” mixture – the sum of a real and an imaginary quantity.

What was Einstein’s top priority as a scientist?

Suppose Einstein had been appointed “supreme advisor” by some enlightened “world prime minister” and had been asked to suggest the way forward for physics. Einstein’s top priority would, I believe, have been the study of gravitational forces.