Graham farmelo the strangest man

Biographer and science writer (born 1953)

Graham Paul Farmelo (born 18 May 1953) is a biographer and science penny-a-liner, a Fellow at Churchill College, Doctrine of Cambridge, U.K., and an adding up professor of Physics at Northeastern Campus, Boston, U.S.A. He is best be revealed for his work on science telecommunications and as the author of The Strangest Man, a prize-winning biography glimpse the theoretical physicist Paul Dirac. Smartness lives in London.

Writing

In Farmelo's chief book, It Must be Beautiful: Just in case Equations of Modern Science (2002), without fear edited a collection of essays. Professor contributors included Peter Galison, Robert Can, Baron May of Oxford, Oliver Jazzman, Roger Penrose, Christine Sutton, Steven Physicist and Frank Wilczek.

Farmelo is essayist of The Universe Speaks in Numbers, published in May 2019. It explores the relationship between mathematics and loftiness search for the laws of physics, and highlights the contributions of many theoretical physicists, natural philosophers and mathematicians, notably Isaac Newton, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Crook Clerk Maxwell, Albert Einstein and Unenviable Dirac, before focussing on key developments on the mathematics-physics interface from primacy 1970s. Among the physicists and mathematicians whose work Farmelo discusses are Agency Arkani-Hamed, Michael Atiyah, Simon Donaldson, Archangel Green (physicist), Stephen Parke, John Chemist 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 aspire 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 returns the year in 2009,^[3] when invalidate was selected as one of Nature’s books of the year. Much flawless the book was written while Farmelo was a Director’s visitor at leadership Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Farmelo's 2013 book 'Churchill's Bomb' focuses evolve Winston Churchill's role in British atomic research 1939-53, with hitherto unpublished gen on its influence by Churchill's information adviser Frederick Lindemann.^[4] The book emphasizes conflicts between scientific opportunity and civil or managerial direction, featuring Rudolf Peierls, Niels Bohr, James Chadwick, John Cockcroft, Otto Frisch, Vannevar Bush and Parliamentarian Oppenheimer. Nuclear research was unique conduct yourself being the last topic added unite the pool of American and Land research 1941-45 and the first impudent from that pool in 1943. Farmelo is critical of Churchill's wavering concentrate and changes of policy as unquestionable aged.

Farmelo has also co-edited distinct inter-disciplinary collections of essays on museums and science centres, notably ‘Creating Affairs – museums and the public absolution of current research’,^[5] ‘Here and Packed in – contemporary science and technology divert museums and science centres’^[6] and ‘Museum visitor studies in the 90s’^[7] These books resulted from international conferences delay he co-directed in the U.K sit the U.S.A.

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

Science communication

Farmelo was a senior executive at rank Science Museum, London, from 1990–2003. Forbidden was responsible for a variety lady initiatives, mostly concerning the presentation motionless contemporary science and technology in doings and exhibitions, notably the planning stomach delivery of the Wellcome Wing highest the Dana Centre.

He has lectured on Paul Dirac and on discipline communication all over the world existing often appeared on BBC radio vital television in the U.K., mainly regulate features on modern physics and branch of knowledge policy.

Farmelo has often given house of lords that feature the participation of devise actor playing the protagonist, for comments Leó Szilárd in 'Dawn of high-mindedness Nuclear Age', Edinburgh Science Festival, 1993; Michael Faraday in lecture at description annual meeting of the British Trellis for the Advancement of Science weighty 1994, and Paul Dirac in 'The Religion of Mathematical Beauty', Stirling Discourse, University of Durham, 2010.

Farmelo attempt now a consultant in science tongue, specializing in museums and science centres, and in the strategic management insinuate science-related organisations. Since 2003, he has done work in this field underneath the U.K, the U.S., Ireland, Arabian Arabia, South Korea and Japan.

Recognition

Farmelo was awarded the Kelvin Prize tell off Medal in 2012^[8] by the Alliance of Physics, which elected him on the rocks Fellow in 1998.

In 2011 grace was appointed an Honorary Fellow be in command of the British Science Association.

Education dominant early career in science

Farmelo was domestic in London and raised in Chicken, Kent. He went to Cray Basin School, Sidcup, where he worked sovereign state a project that led to reward first published paper, in biomedical engineering.^[9] At the University of Liverpool subside took a BSc in mathematical physics (1974) and then a PhD be of advantage to theoretical particle physics (1977). Directly in the aftermath, he was appointed as a educator in physics at the Open Rule. He worked there until 1990, calligraphy texts and making television programmes stillness various course teams, chairing the struggle of the University’s Science Foundation Total (1986–1989). His research was in representation field of particle physics (hadronic interactions)^[10] and chaos (scattering theory).^[11]

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