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===Family=== [[File:Dirac,Paul 1963 Kopenhagen.jpg|thumb|Paul and Manci Dirac in [[Copenhagen]], July 1963]] In 1937, Dirac married<ref>{{harvnb|Farmelo|2009|p=284}}</ref> Margit Wigner, a sister of physicist [[Eugene Wigner]]<ref>{{harvnb|Farmelo|2009|p=253}}</ref> and a divorcee.<ref>{{harvnb|Farmelo|2009|p=256}}</ref> Dirac raised Margit's two children, Judith and [[Gabriel Andrew Dirac|Gabriel]], as if they were his own.<ref>{{harvnb|Farmelo|2009|p=288}}</ref> Paul and Margit Dirac also had two daughters together, Mary Elizabeth and Florence Monica.<ref>{{harvnb|Farmelo|2009|pp=305, 323}}</ref> Margit, known as Manci, had visited her brother in 1934 in [[Princeton, New Jersey]], from their native Hungary and, while at dinner at the Annex Restaurant, met the "lonely-looking man at the next table". This account from a Korean physicist, [[Young Suh Kim|Y. S. Kim]], who met and was influenced by Dirac, also says: "It is quite fortunate for the physics community that Manci took good care of our respected Paul A. M. Dirac. Dirac published eleven papers during the period 1939β46. Dirac was able to maintain his normal research productivity only because Manci was in charge of everything else".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ysfine.com/dirac/wigsis.html |title=Wigner's Sisters |last=Kim |first=Young Suh |year=1995 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080303112257/https://ysfine.com/dirac/wigsis.html |archive-date= 3 March 2008}}</ref>
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