Graham and Wells’ biographer Michael Sherborne talk with the Guardian’s literary editor Claire Armitstead about the 1914 novel The World Set Free, which introduced ‘atomic bombs’ and the concept of a catastrophic nuclear war.
HG Wells, April 1914
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.
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