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Patchen Barss "The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius"
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Patchen Barss chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his choices while crafting The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius, the biography of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose.
Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:
Patchen Barss’s painstaking research strategy
How Patchen grasped complicated information about quantum physics and mathematics
How he crafted erudite, poetic and propulsive narrative from seemingly incomprehensible scientific information and mathematical equations
How he balanced Roger Penrose’s…
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