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; ■ t2 •,!# nwj u,.. r: >Y er icaniiiii, Monday, October 22, 1984/The Battalion/Page 7 Physicist who won Nobel Prize dies United Press International TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Paul gour^ Adrian Maurice Dirac, a physicist ates.’’ vho won the Nobel Prize in physics defense , in 19f53 and worked alongside Al ts to the, bert Einstein and Robert Oppen- 1 heimer, died Saturday at home after along illness. He was age 82. The English-born physicist [chieved international fame for de- doping Dirac’s Equation, which ex- dned the mechanics of the atom, died$ut 6 I and set him off on a 50-year quest to lexplain the relationship between in finite numbers of electrons working together as a single system. 1 Dirac, who studied and later taught at Cambridge before coming to Florida State University in 1971, ared the Nobel Prize with Erwin jchroedinger, the physicist whose quantum-wave theory he completed. Dirac said in a rare interview in 1975 that the insight leading to his product’,] fieakthrough came during a solitary dive basin ‘ n near Cambridge. I “The death of Dr. Paul Dirac is a vas oners P ss not just to Florida State but to he said the whole world. His contributions snericanji P advancement of science are etimes bd fg en d' However, we at the univer- petitorsk. Jywdl miss him greatly as a friend, ) W eie n„ P 0 - He was a warm and caring hu- (tnun being and a person that we have been immensely proud to call oneof our own,” FSU President Ber- nieSliger said Sunday. His colleagues included Einstein, ppenheimer, who later coordi- liated the American atomic bomb Ingram, and Peter Kapitza, a Rus- .n who refused Josef Stalin’s de- tnd to develop a Russian bomb and later pioneered low-tempera- tjtre superconductors, which make gh-speed computers possible. For the most part, however, Dirac Jorked alone. ■ Dirac was born Aug. 8, 1902, in Bristol, England. His father was a Hfiss-born French teacher at a pri- Imeschool, and his mother was En- Klish. He was still a British citizen when he died and was a member of opktritiiBe prestigious Order of Merit of d," Co\ j Great Britain and a Fellow of the Roval Society. i Dirac will be buried in Tallahassee Jther than at Westminster Abbey, as members of the Order of Merit klitionally are, but other funeral jrangements were incomplete Sun- lv. Warped by Scott McCullar Say. fileiiieke DISCOUNT MUFFLERS ' AMERICAN AND FOREIGN CAR SPECIALIST * FITS MANY SMALL CARS quality, ibj the first tin t thanwd id. mpetitioiiij n businestei ater cotii| industrits mies ml Alabama’s home in Aggleland :e from trough of Rota ance wiki 11 durin; licadon dnonngl By ROBIN BLACK Senior Staff Writer The four boys from Ft. Payne did it again. For the third autumn in a row, country/western group Ala bama cruised into town, strolled onstage in G. Rollie White Coliseum and proceeded to charm the socks off an enthusiastic Aggie audience. “You want to play someplace where the audience appreciates your being there,” publicity Director Greg Fowler said earlier Sunday in a press conference. The appreciation was easy to gauge. The band started the show without the help of a warm-up act. They didn’t need a warm-up act. When the.house lights went down and smoke began to rise from Mark Herndon’s drum set, the screaming, stomping, clapping and whooping began and continued through al most the entire concert. Lead guitarist/keyboard player- /fiddle player Jeff Cook came onstage wearing an A&M t-shirt, and lead singer Randy Owen left the stage for a moment in the middle of the show and returned wearing a white jersey with a big ATM insig nia, all the more to the delight of the crowd. Alabama opened the show with “The Closer You Get,” the title song and theme for last year’s tour. The band played an assortment of songs from its Five successful al bums, from the most recent hit “Roll On,” to the band’s first hit, “My Home’s in Alabama,” which closed the concert. During the song, the back section of stage lights was lowered to almost face the audience, and, while still _ more smoke rolled off the stage, red, white and blue lights were turned on to form the confederate flag. During at least three songs the au dience was on its feet, clapping and singing along. The band played consistently well, carrying off the same clean har monies and smooth musical styles that have turned each of their Five albums into platinum. Cook was especially impressive, as usual, switching back and forth from guitar to keyboards to Fiddle. Owen said at the press conference that they worked harder at what they do than anybody. “I figure you can stay around as long as you want to as long as you’re true to your fans and as long as you do your job well,” Owen said. NUCLEAR NIGHTMARES sponsered by TAMU Sociology Club Admission at the door $1.25 WED OCT 24 7:30 PM HELDENFELS 200 The band gets its news from the Batt. ilacesl rcely popuk : said, ody had»' l. “Thisiii I can rad iantaFeni 1 comment ie DON'T GET CAUGHT LAST CHANCE TO GET IN THE YEARBOOK. The 1985 Aggleland will only be taking FRESHMAN AND SOPHOMORE class pictures at the PAVILION ie. ON CAMPUS This week (10/22-10/26) from 8:30 to 12 and 1 to 4:30