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).

Space & Physics

Remembering Freeman Dyson

In our conversations, he ventured far and wide across science, literature and politics, offering unorthodox ideas with a bracing self-confidence

April 12, 2020 — Graham Farmelo | Opinion

Space & Physics

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.

September 24, 2019 — Graham Farmelo and Steve Mirsky

The Sciences

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...

April 24, 2014 — Graham Farmelo and Steve Mirsky

The Sciences

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...

April 24, 2014 — Graham Farmelo and Steve Mirsky

Technology

The Discovery of X-rays

One hundred years ago this month, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen cast the first x-ray images by chance

November 1, 1995 — Graham Farmelo