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Graham Paul Farmelo (born 18 May 1953) is a biographer and science writer, a By-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. ==Writing== In 2009, Farmelo published ‘The Strangest Man’, which won the 2009 Costa Prize for Biography〔(2009 Costa Prize for Biography )〕 and the 2009 'Los Angeles Times Science and Technology Book Prize'.〔(2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes )〕 The book was chosen by Physics World as the physics book of the year in 2009,〔(Physics World book of the year 2009 )〕 when it was selected as one of ''Nature''’s books of the year. Much of the book was written while Farmelo was a Director’s visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Farmelo edited 'It Must be Beautiful: great equations of modern science’, a collection of essays (2002). Its contributors included Peter Galison, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Oliver Morton, Roger Penrose, Christine Sutton, Steven Weinberg and Frank Wilczek. He co-edited several inter-disciplinary collections of essays on museums and science centres, notably ‘Creating Connections – museums and the public understanding of current research’,〔Farmelo, G.P. Chittenden, D. and Lewenstein, B.V. (eds.) ‘Creating Connections’, AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, CA. ISBN 0–7591–0475–1〕 ‘Here and Now – contemporary science and technology in museums and science centres’〔Farmelo, G.P. and Carding, J. ‘Here and Now’, Science Museum Publications, London, ISBN 0–901805–97–1〕 and ‘Museum visitor studies in the 90s’〔Farmelo, G.P. and Bicknell, S. ‘Museum Visitor Studies in the 90s’, Science Museum Publications, London, ISBN 0–901805–61–0〕 These books resulted from international conferences that he co-directed in the U.K and the U.S.A. Farmelo has written articles for ''New Scientist', ''Scientific American'' and several national newspapers in the U.K, book reviews in a wide range of publications, notably ''The Times', ''The New York Times'', ''The Guardian'', ''Nature'' and ''Times Higher Education''. In October 2013, he published ''Churchill’s Bomb'', about Winston Churchill, his scientists and the Anglo-American politics involved in the early development of nuclear weapons. The book features the contributions of several scientists - including Niels Bohr, Vannevar Bush, James Chadwick, John Cockcroft, Otto Frisch, Frederick Lindemann, Robert Oppenheimer, Rudolf Peierls and Lord Rutherford – and also Churchill’s work on the Bomb with U.S. Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Graham Farmelo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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