A hidden story of science, politics and war On Sunday 4 April 1926, Winston Churchill – Chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK government - wrote an essay about quantum theory, at that time a hot topic in physics. He…
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Great Equations of Modern Science First published in early spring 2002, this collection of essays quickly became a science best‑seller in the UK. Shortly afterwards, the book shot up the amazon.com charts overnight after an article about the book appeared…
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How Modern Maths Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets The supreme task of the physicist,’ Einstein declared, ‘is to arrive at the fundamental laws from which that universe can be built up by pure deduction.’ In The Universe Speaks in Numbers, Graham…
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Graham’s first biography, about the British physicist Paul Dirac (1902-1984), helped to bring him to the attention of many readers who knew little or nothing about him. When the book was published in the UK, in 2009, it generated…
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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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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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