The Physicist published in 1962 further established Durham Matt's position in the western literary world. The hero of the play is a gifted physicist. He developed a universal principle that can invent everything. Fearing that this invention would be used by politicians to destroy mankind, he pretended to be crazy and hid in an insane asylum. The intelligence agencies in the west and a "socialist" country all sent people to pretend to be crazy and broke into the madhouse in an attempt to steal information, while the female dean of the madhouse with the Swiss big capitalist as the background had already stolen the paper. The physicist in the play is the positive image of the author, but his desire to escape politics is just a daydream, and finally he falls into the hands of the female dean who symbolizes monopoly capitalists.