OpinionApril 12, 2020
Remembering Freeman Dyson
In our conversations, he ventured far and wide across science, literature and politics, offering unorthodox ideas with a bracing self-confidence
Stories by Graham Farmelo
Graham Farmelo is a Fellow of Churchill College, University of Cambridge; a frequent Director's Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study; and author of The Universe Speaks in Numbers (Basic Books).
The SciencesSeptember 24, 2019
The Mathematical Language of Nature
Physics historian Graham Farmelo talks about his latest book, The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets.
The SciencesApril 25, 2014
The First Nuclear Arms Race: Churchill's Bomb, Part 2
Graham Farmelo is the award-winning author of the Dirac biography The Strangest Man. His latest book is Churchill’s Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race
The SciencesApril 25, 2014
The First Nuclear Arms Race: Churchill's Bomb, Part 1
Graham Farmelo is the award-winning author of the Dirac biography The Strangest Man. His latest book is Churchill’s Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race
TechnologyNovember 1, 1995
The Discovery of X-rays
One hundred years ago this month, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen cast the first x-ray images by chance