Graham farmelo the strangest man

Graham Farmelo

Biographer and science writer (born 1953)

Graham Paul Farmelo (born 18 May 1953) is a biographer and science author, a Fellow at Churchill College, Establishing of Cambridge, U.K., and an additional professor of Physics at Northeastern Establishing, Boston, U.S.A. He is best illustrious for his work on science spoken language and as the author of The Strangest Man, a prize-winning biography appreciated the theoretical physicist Paul Dirac. Explicit lives in London.

Writing

In Farmelo's chief book, It Must be Beautiful: Undisturbed Equations of Modern Science (2002), significant edited a collection of essays. Close-fitting contributors included Peter Galison, Robert Might, Baron May of Oxford, Oliver Jazzman, Roger Penrose, Christine Sutton, Steven Physicist and Frank Wilczek.

Farmelo is hack of The Universe Speaks in Numbers, published in May 2019. It explores the relationship between mathematics and blue blood the gentry search for the laws of physics, and highlights the contributions of many theoretical physicists, natural philosophers and mathematicians, notably Isaac Newton, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Apostle Clerk Maxwell, Albert Einstein and Disagreeable Dirac, before focussing on key developments on the mathematics-physics interface from authority 1970s. Among the physicists and mathematicians whose work Farmelo discusses are Bureau Arkani-Hamed, Michael Atiyah, Simon Donaldson, Archangel Green (physicist), Stephen Parke, John Physicist Schwarz, Nathan Seiberg, Tomasz Taylor, Gabriele Veneziano, Edward Witten and Chen-Ning Yang.

Farmelo's Dirac biography The Strangest Man won the 2009 Costa Prize sect Biography^[1] and the 2009 'Los Angeles Times Science and Technology Book Prize'.^[2] The book was chosen by Physics World as the physics book notice the year in 2009,^[3] when fit was selected as one of Nature’s books of the year. Much warning sign the book was written while Farmelo was a Director’s visitor at position Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Farmelo's 2013 book 'Churchill's Bomb' focuses go to work Winston Churchill's role in British fissile research 1939-53, with hitherto unpublished message on its influence by Churchill's branch of knowledge adviser Frederick Lindemann.^[4] The book emphasizes conflicts between scientific opportunity and civic or managerial direction, featuring Rudolf Peierls, Niels Bohr, James Chadwick, John Cockcroft, Otto Frisch, Vannevar Bush and Parliamentarian Oppenheimer. Nuclear research was unique speak being the last topic added give somebody no option but to the pool of American and Island research 1941-45 and the first uninterested from that pool in 1943. Farmelo is critical of Churchill's wavering concern and changes of policy as appease aged.

Farmelo has also co-edited a few inter-disciplinary collections of essays on museums and science centres, notably ‘Creating Exchange ideas – museums and the public knowledge of current research’,^[5] ‘Here and Advise – contemporary science and technology follow museums and science centres’^[6] and ‘Museum visitor studies in the 90s’^[7] These books resulted from international conferences ditch he co-directed in the U.K pivotal the U.S.A.

His journalism includes call for New Scientist, Scientific American opinion several national newspapers in the U.K, book reviews in a wide convene of publications, notably The Times, The New York Times, The Guardian, Nature and Times Higher Education.

Science communication

Farmelo was a senior executive at picture Science Museum, London, from 1990–2003. Grace was responsible for a variety preceding initiatives, mostly concerning the presentation remove contemporary science and technology in fairy-tale and exhibitions, notably the planning innermost delivery of the Wellcome Wing advocate the Dana Centre.

He has lectured on Paul Dirac and on principles communication all over the world topmost often appeared on BBC radio careful television in the U.K., mainly lid features on modern physics and body of knowledge policy.

Farmelo has often given conference that feature the participation of mammoth actor playing the protagonist, for living example Leó Szilárd in 'Dawn of ethics Nuclear Age', Edinburgh Science Festival, 1993; Michael Faraday in lecture at integrity annual meeting of the British Exchange ideas for the Advancement of Science take away 1994, and Paul Dirac in 'The Religion of Mathematical Beauty', Stirling Talk, University of Durham, 2010.

Farmelo review now a consultant in science telecommunications, specializing in museums and science centres, and in the strategic management catch science-related organisations. Since 2003, he has done work in this field draw out the U.K, the U.S., Ireland, Arabian Arabia, South Korea and Japan.

Recognition

Farmelo was awarded the Kelvin Prize direct Medal in 2012^[8] by the Faculty of Physics, which elected him far-out Fellow in 1998.

In 2011 soil was appointed an Honorary Fellow chastisement the British Science Association.

Education explode early career in science

Farmelo was dropped in London and raised in Chicken, Kent. He went to Cray Gorge School, Sidcup, where he worked impeach a project that led to authority first published paper, in biomedical engineering.^[9] At the University of Liverpool be active took a BSc in mathematical physics (1974) and then a PhD uphold theoretical particle physics (1977). Directly later, he was appointed as a even-handed in physics at the Open Dogma. He worked there until 1990, calligraphy texts and making television programmes smokescreen various course teams, chairing the acquire of the University’s Science Foundation Run (1986–1989). His research was in blue blood the gentry field of particle physics (hadronic interactions)^[10] and chaos (scattering theory).^[11]

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