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‘Smashing Physics’ reviewedIn today’s edition of The Guardian, Graham reviews the new book by UCL Professor Jon Butterworth on life as a CERN experimentalist and the hunt for the Higgs boson.
Today Graham interviewed Baron François Englert, winner with Peter Higgs of the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics, at the opening session of the Science Centre World Summit in Mechelen, Belgium.
A remarkable letter, written in October 1944 to Hitler by Max Planck, has recently come to light and been passed to Graham. In the note, the discoverer of the energy quantum pleads for the life of his son Erwin, who was involved in the attempted to kill Hitler three months before. Max Planck had already lost his eldest son, who was killed in the Battle of Verdun, during World War I.
Chairing opening events of World Science Centre Congress. More information: Programme here (PDF) If you do not have a PDF Reader installed on your computer you can get one here: Adobe Reader or Foxit Reader
‘Beauty as method’ collection of Dirac papers published in ItalyThe 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
Graham interviews Nima Arkani-Hamed about the future of fundamental physicsAt 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.
In today’s Guardian, Graham reviews Philip Ball’s impressive new study of the physicists – including Planck, Heisenberg and Debye – who served under the Reich.
On 14 November, Graham will be talking with great theoretical physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed, of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, about the key challenges for physicists today.
Nima Arkani-Hamed in conversation with Graham at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton