“Whether you were a blue-collar worker or the U.N. ambassador, you got the same sort of reception from my dad.”
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Freeman Dyson
Freeman John Dyson was a British-American theoretical physicist and mathematician who worked in quantum field theory, astrophysics, random matrices, mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics, condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, and engineering. He was professor emeritus in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and a member of the board of sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic S…
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Born 15 December 1923 · Died 28 February 2020 · Q153717
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If he would throw his weight behind efforts to mitigate climate change, he could have done so much good. But when I put that to him, he would say,
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2026· 3 entries
“If he would throw his weight behind efforts to mitigate climate change, he could have done so much good. But when I put that to him, he would say,”
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“Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious creationists and scientific materialists are equally dogmatic and insensitive.”
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2022· 1 entry
Dollars] would be the target to shoot for; in terms of real wages, that would make it comparable to the colonization of America
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2020· 3 entries
Died 2020-02-28.
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“As we look out into the Universe and identify the many accidents of physics and astronomy that have worked together to our benefit, it almost seems as if the Universe must in some sense have known that we were coming.”
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“I believe global warming is grossly exaggerated as a problem. It's a real problem, but it's nothing like as serious as people are led to believe. The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm. It distracts people's attention from much more serious problems.”
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2018· 1 entry
Dyson received the first Presidential Science and Humanism Award from the American University of Beirut
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2012· 2 entries
Awarded Henri Poincaré Prize (2012).
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Dyson published (with William H
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2011· 2 entries
Dyson received the Arthur C
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Dyson received as one of twenty distinguished Old Wykehamists at the Ad Portas celebration, the highest honor that Winchester College bestows
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded Gerard K. O’Neill Memorial Award (2010).
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2009· 2 entries
"I think it's almost true without exception if you want to win a Nobel Prize, you should have a long attention span, get hold of some deep and important problem and stay with it for ten years
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Dyson criticised James Hansen's climate-change activism
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2007).
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2003· 4 entries
Awarded Pomeranchuk Prize (2003).
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And the Dyson Sphere topic was broached
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Dyson was awarded the Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology in Telluride, Colorado
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Was president of the Space Studies Institute, the space research organization founded by Gerard K
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2000· 3 entries
Awarded Templeton Prize (2000).
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Dyson was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion
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Dyson declared that he was a (non-denominational) Christian, and he disagreed with Dawkins on several subjects, such as that group selection is less important than individual selection on the subject of evolution
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1998· 2 entries
Awarded Joseph A. Burton Forum Award (1998).
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Joined the board of the Solar Electric Light Fund
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1996· 1 entry
Was awarded the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science
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1995· 1 entry
Gave the Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, sponsored jointly by the Hebrew University and Harvard University Press that grew into the book Imagined Worlds
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1993· 2 entries
Awarded Enrico Fermi Award (1993).
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Dyson was given the Enrico Fermi Award
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1991· 1 entry
Won Oersted Medal (1991).
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1990· 1 entry
Dyson taught at Duke University as a Fritz London Memorial Lecturer
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1989· 2 entries
Won Matteucci Medal (1989).
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Dyson was elected as an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Andrew Gemant Award (1988).
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1986· 1 entry
Dyson received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction (1984).
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Wolf Prize in Physics (1981).
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded Harvey Prize (1977).
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1973· 1 entry
The number theorist Hugh Lowell Montgomery was visiting the Institute for Advanced Study and had just made his pair correlation conjecture concerning the distribution of the zeros of the Riemann zeta function
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1972· 2 entries
Awarded Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (1972).
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“The World, the Flesh, and the Devil”
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1970· 2 entries
Awarded J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize (1970).
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The Harvey Prize in 1977 and Wolf Prize in 1981
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1969· 1 entry
Won Max Planck Medal (1969).
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1968· 1 entry
Won Hughes Medal (1968).
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1967· 1 entry
In his capacity as a military adviser, Dyson wrote an influential paper on the issue of possible US use of tactical nuclear weapons in the Vietnam War
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1966· 1 entry
Won Lorentz Medal (1966).
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1965· 2 entries
Awarded Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (1965).
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Lorentz Medal in 1966, Max Planck Medal in 1969, the J
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1960· 2 entries
“Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation”
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Dyson wrote a short paper for the journal Science titled "Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation"
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1958· 1 entry
Dyson was a member of the design team under Edward Teller for TRIGA, a small, inherently safe nuclear reactor used throughout the world in hospitals and universities for the production of medical isotopes
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1952· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1952).
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1949· 2 entries
In related work, Dyson invented the Dyson series
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Dyson demonstrated the equivalence of two formulations of quantum electrodynamics (QED): Richard Feynman's diagrams and the operator method developed by Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga
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1948· 2 entries
And published in 1949 was the first to make use of them
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Titled The General and Logical Theory of Automata
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1947· 3 entries
Awarded Harkness Fellowship (1947).
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As a Commonwealth Fellow for postgraduate study with Hans Bethe at Cornell University (1947–1948)
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Dyson published two papers in number theory
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1946· 1 entry
Studied at University of Cambridge (1946).
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1945· 1 entry
Studied at Trinity College (1941–1945).
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1941· 1 entry
Studied at Winchester College (1936–1941).
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1936· 1 entry
Studied at Twyford School (1932–1936).
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1932· 1 entry
Studied at Winchester College (1928–1932).
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1923· 1 entry
Born 1923-12-15.
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