Much of the book was written while Farmelo was a Director’s visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.įarmelo's 2013 book 'Churchill's Bomb' focuses on Winston Churchill's role in British nuclear research 1939-53, with hitherto unpublished information on its influence by Churchill's science adviser Frederick Lindemann. The book was chosen by Physics World as the physics book of the year in 2009, when it was selected as one of Nature’s books of the year.

Among the physicists and mathematicians whose work Farmelo discusses are Nima Arkani-Hamed, Michael Atiyah, Simon Donaldson, Michael Green (physicist), John Henry Schwarz, Nathan Seiberg, Gabriele Veneziano, Edward Witten and Chen-Ning Yang.įarmelo's Dirac biography ‘ The Strangest Man’ won the 2009 Costa Prize for Biography and the 2009 ' Los Angeles Times Science and Technology Book Prize'. It explores the relationship between mathematics and the search for the laws of physics, and highlights the contributions of several theoretical physicists, natural philosophers and mathematicians, notably Isaac Newton, Pierre-Simon Laplace, James Clerk Maxwell, Albert Einstein and Paul Dirac, before focussing on key developments on the mathematics-physics interface from the 1970s. He lives in London.įarmelo is author of 'The Universe Speaks in Numbers', published in May 2019.

He is best known for his work on science communication and as the author of The Strangest Man, a prize-winning biography of the theoretical physicist Paul Dirac. Graham Paul Farmelo (born ) is a biographer and science writer, a Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, U.K., and an Adjunct Professor of Physics at Northeastern University, Boston, U.S.A.

The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo