He was kind enough to drop by the Scientific American offices on June 18th to talk about Dirac. Farmelo is spending the summer doing research at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. His book has won the 2010 Costa Biography award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the Science and Technology category. Farmelo is a senior research fellow at London's Science Museum and is adjunct professor of physics at Northeastern University here in the U.S. He is the author of the acclaimed biography The Strangest Man, the story of legendary theoretical physicist Paul Dirac. Steve: That's physicist and writer Graham Farmelo. This week on the podcast:įarmelo: Today the modern theory of the early universe, is in the first quillionth of a second, the universe was half matter, half antimatter, and then gradually matter wins out to speak better with not very much less antimatter, now by that light Dirac conceived half the early universe in his head. Steve: Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American posted on June 24th, 2010. Web sites related to this episode include Award-winning writer and physicist Graham Farmelo talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky (pictured ) about The Strangest Man, Farmelo's biography of Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Paul Dirac.
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