Who was Freeman Dyson and what were his contributions to science?

[Doc Al]

(From the NYTimes)
"Freeman J. Dyson, a mathematical prodigy who left his mark on subatomic physics before turning to messier subjects like Earth’s environmental future and the morality of war, died on Friday at a hospital near Princeton, N.J. He was 96."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/science/freeman-dyson-dead.html

 

[jackwhirl]

Physicist And Iconoclastic Thinker Freeman Dyson Dies At 96

 

[robphy]

Freeman Dyson: A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D.
Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People
Freeman Dyson Playlist: Part 1 of 157... (about 1-2 minutes each)


Freeman Dyson - Mathematical work during the war: the alpha-beta theorem (40/157)


Freeman Dyson - Richard Feynman and his work (58/157)


Freeman Dyson - An educational road trip with Richard Feynman (70/157)


Freeman Dyson - The Dyson sphere - hijacked by science fiction (138/157)

 

[OCR]

Recent deaths - Wikipedia :

Freeman Dyson, 96, British-born American physicist and mathematician (Dyson's transform, Rank of a partition, Dyson series), fall.Freeman Dyson - Wikipedia

It's a good read. . . he was an interesting fellow !

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[Auto-Didact]

This paper of his changed my life: 'Missed Opportunities (1972)' It is a work on the same level but in somewhat of a different vein as Hilbert's list of important problems for the future of mathematics and physics. Therefore it is a must-read for all physicists and mathematicians, both practicing experts and especially aspiring students.

Requiescat in pace, Freeman Dyson.

 

[robphy]

Physics in the Days of Einstein and Feynman | Freeman Dyson

Freeman Dyson posits "QM cannot be a complete description of nature" @ J.A. Wheeler's 90th birthday

https://www.closertotruth.com/contributor/freeman-dyson/profile (scroll down on that page to see videos)

Freeman Dyson: Why General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics can't be unified
https://www.closertotruth.com/series/why-the-quantum-so-mysterious#video-4583
From YouTube...
Freeman J. Dyson: Life, Religion, Trade, Mathematics (5 parts)

 

[jedishrfu]

Quanta has done an article on the good professor:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/remembering-the-unstoppable-freeman-dyson-20200413/

 

[DiracPool]

I currently put myself to sleep with web of stories or whatever with Freeman Dyson, Hanse Bethe, and, what's his name? Oh yeah, the quark guy, that prima donna Murray Gell-Man. I listened to 24 hours of his dribble on the web of stories (WOS) site. It was rewarding, though. Better to do it on the WOS site, though, because, unless you have a subscription to YouTube, you are getting an obnoxious commercial every two or three minutes.

 

[jedishrfu]

For a moment I thought you were going to say George Gamow of Alpher, Bethe Gamow fame.