Paul Dirac

A) set the limits on the probability of measurement accuracy (1927).
B) developed a wave equation for matter waves (1926).
C) suggested the existence of matter waves (1924).
D) discovered the positron using a cloud chamber (1932).
E) predicted the positron from relativistic quantum mechanics (1928).


E

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