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===Students=== Amongst his many students<ref name="mathgene">{{MathGenealogy|id=18524}}</ref><ref name="mactutor">{{MacTutor Biography|id=Dirac}}</ref> were [[Homi J. Bhabha]],<ref name=bhabhaphd/> [[Fred Hoyle]], [[John Polkinghorne]]<ref name=polking/> and [[Freeman Dyson]].<ref>Sandberg, L., [https://www.ias.edu/press-releases/2020/freeman-j-dyson-1923β2020 "Freeman J. Dyson (1923β2020), Scientist and Writer, Who Dreamt Among the Stars, Dies at 96"], [[Institute for Advanced Study|IAS]], 28 February 2020.</ref> Polkinghorne recalls that Dirac "was once asked what was his fundamental belief. He strode to a blackboard and wrote that the laws of nature should be expressed in beautiful equations."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Polkinghorne |first=John C. |title=Belief in God in an age of science |author-link=John Polkinghorne|date=2003 |publisher=Yale Nota Bene |isbn=978-0-300-09949-2 |series=Terry lecture series |location=New Haven, Conn. London}}</ref>{{rp|2}} In 1930, [[Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar]] attended Dirac's course on quantum mechanics four times, describing it as "just like a piece of music you want to hear over and over again."{{sfnp| Farmelo| 2009| p=180}}
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