List of things named after Paul Dirac

Below is a list of things, primarily in the fields of mathematics and physics, named in honour of Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac.

Physics

Notations

• Dirac notation
• Dirac bracket

Equations and related objects

• Dirac adjoint
• Dirac field
• Dirac Lagrangian
• Dirac matrices
• Dirac sea
• Dirac constant, see reduced Planck constant
• Dirac spinor

• Dirac equation
  • Nonlinear Dirac equation
  • Dirac equation in curved spacetime
  • Two-body Dirac equations

• Dirac large numbers hypothesis
• Dirac monopole

Formalisms

• Fermi–Dirac statistics
• Dirac–von Neumann axioms

Effects

• Abraham–Lorentz–Dirac Force, see Abraham–Lorentz force
• Kapitsa–Dirac effect

Pure and applied mathematics

• Dirac delta function
  • Dirac comb
  • Dirac measure
• Dirac operator
• Dirac algebra

Other uses

• 5997 Dirac, an asteroid
• Dirac Prize
• Dirac (program)