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TIL Paul Dirac was the youngest-ever theoretician to win the Nobel Prize in Physics and Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at thirty. Dirac published an equation in 1928 that physicists all over the world regarded as wondrous as it described behavior of electrons while accounting for spin

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