One thing I hadn't appreciated until recently was that Dirac held the Lucasian Chair at Cambridge. The list of people who have held this post is really rather impressive:
When he died, it was felt that the memory of such an extraordinary man should not be permitted to die out, and his papers should be published. So his papers were examined, and nothing whatever worth publishing was found
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_delta_function
One thing I hadn't appreciated until recently was that Dirac held the Lucasian Chair at Cambridge. The list of people who have held this post is really rather impressive:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucasian_Professor_of_Mathemati...