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Oppenheimer: Birth of the Atomic Age with Kai Bird
StarTalk Radio
Challenges of Researching and Writing Biographies of Scientists
This chapter explores the difficulties faced by biographers in researching and writing about scientists, including the challenges of explaining complex scientific concepts in layman's terms. The guest also shares their personal experience of taking a course in physics for poets and the funding available for scientific biographies. The chapter briefly touches on the delay in a film adaptation of a biography and references the uncertainty principle humorously.
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