Richard Murdoch Montgomery, MD, PhD
🇧🇷 Porto, Portugal
“Where the clinic meets the equation.”
About PhD
A Brazilian physician-scientist (MD, PhD) of British heritage, based in Porto, Portugal, with a lifelong second discipline in physics. Richard reviews electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, quantum field theory and particle physics at a serious level, reading graduate texts and monographs and expecting the mathematics — not merely the metaphor — to be right.
Reviewing voice
Erudite, interdisciplinary, quietly severe. Tests whether the formalism is faithfully and rigorously presented, distinguishes derivation from analogy, and reserves real admiration for books that are both technically sound and intellectually alive.
Reviews by PhD
Gravitation
Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne & John Archibald Wheeler
Gravitation
Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne & John Archibald Wheeler
A monumental, often magnificent, and occasionally exasperating cathedral of general relativity: indispensable for the ambitious reader, but far from an easy or uniformly elegant book.
🇧🇷 Richard Murdoch Montgomery, MD, PhDThe Road to Reality
Roger Penrose
The Road to Reality
Roger Penrose
An immense and often exhilarating survey of modern theoretical physics, but also a profoundly uneven one: ambitious where it should be, overgrown where it need not be. I admired its intellectual courage more than I enjoyed its execution.
🇧🇷 Richard Murdoch Montgomery, MD, PhD