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Events on Wednesday 1 February 1928 1
1928Dirac equation publishedRelativistic wave equation for the electronPaul Dirac published a relativistic quantum equation for the electron in the Proceedings of the Royal Society. The equation accounted for electron spin and predicted the existence of antimatter. The positron was discovered in 1932.