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===War work=== Dirac contributed to the [[Tube Alloys|Tube Alloys project]], the British programme to research and construct atomic bombs during World War II.<ref>{{Cite ODNB|last=Cathcart|first=Brian|date=25 May 2006|title=Tube Alloys directorate (act. 1941β1945)|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-93791|access-date=25 October 2023|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/93791}}</ref><ref name="Vrobel-2020">{{Cite thesis |last=Vrobel |first=Daniel P. |title=Paul Dirac: The Atomic Centrifuge and the Tube Alloys Project |date=2020 |publisher=Florida State University |url=https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:770703/datastream/PDF/view |degree=Master}}</ref> Dirac made fundamental contributions to the process of [[Enriched uranium|uranium enrichment]] and the [[gas centrifuge]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=McKie |first=Robin |author-link=Robin McKie |date=31 January 2009 |title=Anti-matter and madness |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/feb/01/strangest-man-paul-dirac-review |access-date=24 October 2023 |website=amp.theguardian.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kemp |first=R. Scott |date=26 June 2009 |title=Gas Centrifuge Theory and Development: A Review of U.S. Programs |journal=Science & Global Security |language=en |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=1β19 |doi=10.1080/08929880802335816 |issn=0892-9882|doi-access=free |bibcode=2009S&GS...17....1K }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gilinsky |first=Victor |date=2010 |title=Remembrances of Dirac |journal=Physics Today |volume=63 |issue=5 |page=59 |doi=10.1063/1.3431338|doi-access=free |bibcode=2010PhT....63e..59G }}</ref><ref name="Vrobel-2020" /> and whose work was deemed to be "probably the most important theoretical result in centrifuge technology".<ref>{{harvnb|Kragh|1990|p=158}}</ref>
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