Marcus Chown

Marcus Chown

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Marcus Chown is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Brunel University. His books include  'Breakthrough,'   'The Ascent of Gravity,'  which was the Sunday Times 2017 Science Book of the Year; 'Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand', 'What A Wonderful World', 'Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You,' 'We Need to Talk About Kelvin,' and 'Afterglow of Creation,' both of which were runners-up for the Royal Society Book Prize. Marcus has also won the Bookseller's Digital Innovation of the Year for 'Solar System for iPad.'

Articles by: Marcus Chown

A black and white photograph of Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac. He has short dark hair, a moustache and is wearing a pin-striped suit. He is sitting down in a comfy chair, holding a book open in his lap.

'The most magical equation in physics': How Paul Dirac accidentally revealed the strange world of antimatter

By Marcus Chown published

In this extract from the book 'The One Thing You Need to Know', author Marcus Chown explains how the Dirac Equation came to be.