Belfer Award
DOI: 10.1063/1.3047215
Yeshiva University presented its third annual Belfer Graduate School of Science Award to P. A. M. Dirac on November 15 for his “outstanding contributions to science.” At the same time, the University announced that it was establishing, in his honor, a Dirac Chair of Physics. Professor Dirac, who has held the post of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University since 1932, has been at Yeshiva during the current academic year as a visiting professor of physics.