Graham Farmelo
Graham’s next book, ‘Hawking: his life and work’, will be published in September by John Murray in the UK and Penguin Random House in the USA. Graham said: ‘I’m much looking forward to the publication of ‘Hawking.’ It has been enormous fun to research in the past five years, and I’m deeply grateful to the [ ] The post ‘Hawking’ is coming soon appeared first on Graham Farmelo .
'The greatest living theoretical physicist' - many commentators in the past few decades have described Steven Weinberg in such terms. .... Read More The post Remembering Steven Weinberg appeared first on Graham Farmelo .
No human alive has done more than Roger Penrose has done more to enrich our understanding of black holes, an achievement that deservedly won him the lion’s share of the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics. In this article .... Read more The post Penrose eNobeled appeared first on Graham Farmelo .
Phil Anderson was one of the most creative theoretical physicists of the past century. A specialist in the science of solids, he made influential contributions to our understanding of magnetism, discovered the important phenomenon of Anderson localisation (the absence of diffusion waves in disordered media). Read More The post Phil Anderson: ‘The Universe Speaks in Numbers’ podcast appeared first…
In the past fifteen years, I had dozens of lunches with Freeman and I can remember every single one of them. They were so entertaining, and such an education, that I made notes about each of them. He was always quiet- spoken, direct and – unlike most scientific celebrities of his stature - as content to listen as to talk. Read More Freeman Dyson in his office, 11 June 2019 The post Remembering…
Martin Rees, a former President of the Royal Society, is one of the most accomplished cosmologists of the past half-century. .... Read More The post Martin Rees: The Universe Speaks in Numbers podcast appeared first on Graham Farmelo .
Karen Uhlenbeck, one of the most accomplished mathematicians of the past fifty years, belatedly won the Abel Prize in 2019. ..... Read More Uhlenbeck (2019) credit Andrea Kane The post Karen Uhlenbeck: The Universe Speaks in Numbers Podcast appeared first on Graham Farmelo .
Steven Weinberg is perhaps the world’s most accomplished physicist. In dozens of brilliant contributions, he has shed light on all four fundamental forces of nature and is also a brilliant commentator on physics and its place in culture. ... Read More 27 October 2014 The post Steven Weinberg: The Universe Speaks in Numbers podcast appeared first on Graham Farmelo .
Based at the Simons Center at Stony Brook, Zohar Komargodski is one of the most brilliant young theoretical physicists. .... Read More Stony Brook, NY; Stony Brook University: Zohar Komargodski - Professor (Simons Center for Geometry and Physics), Ph.D., Weizmann Institute was awarded the 2018 Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences The post Zohar Komargodski: The Universe Speaks in Numbers podcast…
Sir Simon Donaldson is one of the most accomplished mathematicians of the past fifty years. He did made some of his most influential research when he was developing gauge theories, .... Read More The post Simon Donaldson: The Universe Speaks in Numbers podcast appeared first on Graham Farmelo .