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Oxford Literary Festival, UKGraham and Philip Ball explore the dilemmas facing scientists during Wars at Oxford Literary Festival on 26 March at 4.00pm. More information: Science and War: Working for Churchill and Hitler
Oxford University, UKTalk ‘Churchill, Oxford physicists and the Bomb’ More Information
Cheltenham Science FestivalTalk ‘Science and War: working for Churchill and Hitler’ (with Philip Ball) Details to come here: Cheltenham Science Festival
‘Churchill’s Bomb’ reviewed in ‘Foreign Affairs’The journal Foreign Affairs has selected Churchill’s Bomb as its Book of the Day, having invited Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman to review it. Freedman describes the book as ‘terrific’:
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The Italian physicist Vincenzo Barone has published La Bellezza Come Metodo, a handsome collection of papers by Paul Dirac on the great value of mathematical beauty as a lodestar to theoretical physicists.
Beauty as Method
Graham’s biography of Dirac is now available in an Italian translation: L’uomo più strano del mondo
‘Churchill’s Bomb’ selected as a science book of the yearThe Observer’s science editor Robin McKie has selected Graham’s new book as one of his science books of the year, commenting that it offers ‘intriguing insights into the pursuit of science then and now’.
Graham’s biography of Paul Dirac, The Strangest Man, was Physics World’s Book of the Year in 2009. Now Churchill’s Bomb has been short-listed for the same honour.
Graham’s new book, now available in Canada has been warmly reviewed in Maclean’s Magazine
At the Science Museum’s Dana Centre on 14 November, Graham talked with Nima Arkani-Hamed – a theoretical physicist at the Institute for Advance Study, Princeton – about where fundamental physics might be heading in the next few decades.
Nima answers questions
Art and scienceUnder the auspices of the Science Museum, London, Graham brought together the novelist Ian McEwan and the theoretical physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed for a discussion about the relationships between the arts and sciences.
