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born 1953 England

Graham Farmelo (born 18 May 1953 in London) is a biographer and science writer with a Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics from the University of Liverpool. His 2009 biography The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius won the Biography Award at the 2009 Costa Book Awards.

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As every physicist knows, Dirac was, in the words of Niels Bohr, "the strangest man of quantum mechanics" — someone deeply private, of very, very few words, rectilinear in thinking, virtually, apparently devoid of empathy with other human beings, always an outsider.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think that there is plenty of room for a small number of forums where the people who are very doubtful about the way that string theory is going can talk to their critics.

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