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Radio 4, UKGraham will be one of the critics on this week’s ‘Saturday Review’ on Radio 4 (later on iPlayer). Details will be available here.
Remodelled Dirac Science Library opened at FSULast Thursday evening, the remodelled Dirac Science Library at Florida State University was formally opened, with Graham as guest speaker at the ceremony. The Library, first opened in 1989 by Dirac’s wife Manci, now has 250 additional seats and a host of new facilities, including large wireless displays for collaborative work, a high-quality recording studio, nineteen study rooms and a spacious new Starbucks.
Graham with Julia Zimmerman, Dean of University Libraries at FSU (right) and Katie McCormick, Associate Dean for Special Collections and Archives (left)
Graham is the guest speaker at of opening of the refurbished Dirac Science Library.
Churchill’s Bomb is The Observer’s paperback of the weekThe spy Klaus Fuchs is features strongly in Alexander Larman’s review of Graham’s latest book in this week’s Observer feature ‘Paperback of the week’.
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Graham will give a talk on ‘Winston Churchill – the first politician to be a nuclear visionary?’ at the University’s Museum of Fine Arts. Details to follow here.
Churchill’s Bomb twice named as one of the best books of 2014 Sir Lawrence Freedman, Professor of War Studies, Kings College London, has selected Graham’s latest book as one of the best three books on military, scientific and technological themes in 2014.
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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.
Monica Dirac with Graham at Caltech’s Athenaeum
Graham will be giving a colloquium ‘Paul Dirac – the theorist’s theorist’ Details can be found here.
‘Wittgenstein and Physics’The first one-day conference in series organised by the St Cross Centre for the History and Philosophy of Physics, Wittgenstein and Physics, took place in Oxford yesterday. Organised by Jo Ashbourn, it was a hugely successful event, highlighting many of Wittgenstein’s important contributions to thinking about the nature of physics.
Left to right: Harvey Brown (philosopher of physics, Oxford University), Rupert Read (philosopher, East Anglia University), Graham, Chon Tejedor (philosopher, Hertfordshire University), Richard Staley (philosopher and historian, Cambridge University), Jo Ashbourn (physicist, Oxford University)
Steven Weinberg – theorist’s theoristSteven Weinberg has been one of the most luminous stars of theoretical physics for fifty years. For over half that time, he has been based at the University of Texas at Austin, where Graham talked with him at length this week about the relationship between pure mathematics and fundamental physics, the subject of Graham’s next book.
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