Scientists / Open questions
Paul A.M. Dirac
Quantum mechanics; quantum field theory
1933 Nobel Prize in Physics
28 questions
Dirac's generalized transformation function: the probability interpretation and constructive scope of amplitudes for general spacetime regions
Times of individual quantum transitions: the surviving open core of Dirac's 1927 physical interpretation of the quantum dynamics
Completing Dirac's Heisenberg-picture reformulation of quantum electrodynamics: rigorous q-number foundations, physical interpretation, gauge-invariant perturbation theory, covariant finiteness, and scope beyond one-electron order
Dirac's 1962 problem: a genuine unitary representation of the inhomogeneous Lorentz group in an interacting relativistic quantum field theory