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1902 – 1984Paul Dirac (1902-1984)Died 20 October 1984, aged 82British theoretical physicist Paul Dirac, who shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics for his foundational work in quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter, died in Tallahassee, Florida.