Dr graham farmelo biography

Biographer and science writer (born 1953)

Graham Paul Farmelo (born 18 May 1953) is a biographer and science writer, a Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, U.K., and an adjunct professor of Physics at Northeastern University, Boston, U.S.A.

He is best known for his work on science communication and as the author of The Strangest Man, a prize-winning biography of the theoretical physicist Paul Dirac. He lives in London.

Dr graham farmelo biography

Writing

In Farmelo's first book, It Must be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science (2002), he edited a collection of essays. Its contributors included Peter Galison, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Oliver Morton, Roger Penrose, Christine Sutton, Steven Weinberg and Frank Wilczek.

Farmelo is author of The Universe Speaks in Numbers, published in May 2019. It explores the relationship between mathematics and the search for the laws of physics, and highlights the contributions of several theoretical physicists, na