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DIRAC (5)
or
P. A. M. DIRAC (1,1,1,5) or (3,5) [I'm not sure]

Jumping on the physics bandwagon.
The second (ungainly) option is personal nostalgia, as that's how his name usually appears in footnotes, lists of references, ...

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Mad, mad Capri physicist (3,5)

Leader in physics (and primarily advanced mathematics) dabbled in relativity at Cambridge (1.1.1. 5)

I meet madcap nutty professor (1,1,1,5)

Scientist caught by quiet morning raid - that's distressing (1,1,1.5)

Phycisit burns oxygen after cardio workout (5)

I should say "Physicist" ffs (phphs).

He predicted the existence of antimatter while returning in motorcar I drove (5)

Spiner, we're told, describes fermions to Picard, who's confused - then the penny drops (5)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_spinor

For Star Trek TNG fans as well as those who like terribly labored clues

He baffled Einstein by playing Cardi B without the bass (5)

Einstein wrote "I am toiling over Dirac. This balancing on the dizzying path between genius and madness is awful."

Cardi B is a rapper who was born long after Einstein died, which is only one of the reasons he would have been baffled.