Comment on Paul Dirac: The unsung geniusparentComments−zerostar0714yHe was also quite modest, not naming equations after himself, and used to refer to Fermi-Dirac statistics as "Fermi statistics".Btw, how did PAM Dirac come up? Is it some celebration i am unaware of?−arethuza14yThe earlier HN thread about Feynman mentions Dirac:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3230826
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He was also quite modest, not naming equations after himself, and used to refer to Fermi-Dirac statistics as "Fermi statistics".
Btw, how did PAM Dirac come up? Is it some celebration i am unaware of?
The earlier HN thread about Feynman mentions Dirac:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3230826