Both a new guest and a new literary genre are introduced in today's episode: PhD candidate in Theoretical Physics at King's College London Rob Jones and the biography. Together with Hà Trang, Rob discusses the relationships between science and art and science and religion through the first full biography of Nobel Prize winning physicist Paul Dirac by Graham Farmelo, The Strangest Man.
Rob believes that though pursuing distinctive disciplines, scientists, writers and religious leaders strive towards telling a convincing story so that the audience may want to come back to it over and over again. As for the art, his stance is clear: one can't be a scientist without being creative.
