A Theory of Electrons and Protons. Offprint from Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series A, Vol. 126, No. A801

by Paul Dirac

$8,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

London: Harrison & Sons for the Royal Society, 1930. First edition, extremely rare offprint, of Dirac’s prediction of antimatter – although he did not accept it as such until a year later see below – and the advent of the dynamical view of the vacuum which was fundamental to the later development of quantum field theory. “The consensus among today’s scientists is that Dirac’s role in foreseeing the

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