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…
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The following articles are among the most read that Graham has written for his website in the past two decade.
Graham's praise of Wolfgang Pauli's 'lovely sex' in the brothels of Hamburg has recently drawn criticism from on-line commentators. This followed the live broadcast of Radio 4's In Our Time about Pauli's Exclusion Principle, a programme that also featured the…
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Churchill’s interests in science have been all over the media this past week. This has followed the claim in the leading science journal Nature that Mario Livio had discovered a 'lost' article by Winston Churchill on the possible existence of…
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Imperial College physicist Jess Wade has done of a brilliant job of graphically rendering Graham’s Ten Commandments, which he presented yesterday at the Institute of Physics’ headquarters in London. Read More
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The chemist Harry Kroto, co-discoverer of buckminsterfullerene, died in East Sussex on 30 April and his funeral took place on 19 May. Graham knew Harry well, and remembers fondly a fine chemist, an inspirational communicator, and a good friend. Portrait…
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As part of his research for his next book, Graham spent last Friday in Edinburgh talking with the Fields-Medal winning mathematician Sir Michael Atiyah and the Nobel-winning physicist Sir Peter Higgs. Read More
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Dirac's younger daughter Monica visited Caltech as the guest of the physics department, sixty nine years after her father paid his momentous visit to the institution. Read More Monica Dirac with Graham at Caltech's Athenaeum
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New insights into the extraordinary Dirac family emerge in a remarkable letter by Rosemary McGregor-Wood, who lived directly opposite them in Cavendish Avenue. Dirac family in c. 1946 Read More
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