In 1928 in England Paul Dirac found an equation that was fully compatible with special relativity. The equation was solved for hydrogen-like atoms the same year (assuming a simple Coulomb potential around a point charge) by the German Walter Gordon. Instead of a single (possibly complex) function as in the Schrödinger equation, one must find four complex functions that make up a bispinor. The first and second functions (or components of the spinor) correspond (in the usual basis) to spin "up" and spin "down" states, as do the third and fourth components.