British theoretical physicist and mathematician (1923–2020)
Freeman Dyson
FRS
Dyson at the Long Now Seminar in San Francisco, California, in 2005
Born
Freeman John Dyson
(1923-12-15)15 December 1923
Crowthorne, Berkshire, England
Died
28 February 2020(2020-02-28) (aged 96)
Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Nationality
British-American
Alma mater
Trinity College, Cambridge
Cornell University
Known for
Circular ensemble
Crank conjecture
Crank of a partition
Rank of a partition
Random matrix theory
Stability of matter
Self-replicating machine
Quantum electrodynamics
Helios propulsion system
Project Orion
TRIGA
Advocacy against nuclear weapons
Dyson sphere
Spouses
Verena Huber
(m. 1950; div. 1958)
[2]
Imme Jung
(m. 1958–2020)
Children
6, including Esther Dyson and George Dyson[1]
Awards
Heineman Prize (1965)
Lorentz Medal (1966)
Hughes Medal (1968)
Max Planck Medal (1969)
Harvey Prize (1977)
Wolf Prize (1981)
Andrew Gemant Award (1988)
Matteucci Medal (1989)
Oersted Medal (1991)
Enrico Fermi Award (1993)
Templeton Prize (2000)
Pomeranchuk Prize (2003)
Henri Poincaré Prize (2012)
Scientific career
Fields
Physics, mathematics
Institutions
Royal Air Force
Institute for Advanced Study
University of Birmingham
Cornell University
Academic advisors
Hans Bethe
Website
ias.edu/sns/dyson
Notes
He was the son of George Dyson.
Quantum field theory
Feynman diagram
History
Background
Field theory
Electromagnetism
Weak force
Strong force
Quantum mechanics
Special relativity
General relativity
Gauge theory
Yang–Mills theory
Symmetries
Symmetry in quantum mechanics
C-symmetry
P-symmetry
T-symmetry
Lorentz symmetry
Poincaré symmetry
Gauge symmetry
Explicit symmetry breaking
Spontaneous symmetry breaking
Noether charge
Topological charge
Tools
Anomaly
Background field method
BRST quantization
Correlation function
Crossing
Effective action
Effective field theory
Expectation value
Feynman diagram
Lattice field theory
LSZ reduction formula
Partition function
Propagator
Quantization
Regularization
Renormalization
Vacuum state
Wick's theorem
Equations
Dirac equation
Klein–Gordon equation
Proca equations
Wheeler–DeWitt equation
Bargmann–Wigner equations
Standard Model
Quantum electrodynamics
Electroweak interaction
Quantum chromodynamics
Higgs mechanism
Incomplete theories
String theory
Supersymmetry
Technicolor
Theory of everything
Quantum gravity
Scientists
Adler
Anderson
Anselm
Bargmann
Becchi
Belavin
Bell
Berezin
Bethe
Bjorken
Bleuer
Bogoliubov
Brodsky
Brout
Buchholz
Cachazo
Callan
Coleman
Dashen
DeWitt
Dirac
Doplicher
Dyson
Englert
Faddeev
Fadin
Fayet
Fermi
Feynman
Fierz
Fock
Frampton
Fritzsch
Fröhlich
Fredenhagen
Furry
Glashow
Gelfand
Gell-Mann
Glimm
Goldstone
Gribov
Gross
Gupta
Guralnik
Haag
Heisenberg
Hepp
Higgs
Hagen
't Hooft
Iliopoulos
Ivanenko
Jackiw
Jaffe
Jona-Lasinio
Jordan
Jost
Källén
Kendall
Kinoshita
Klebanov
Kontsevich
Kuraev
Landau
Lee
Lehmann
Leutwyler
Lipatov
Łopuszański
Low
Lüders
Maiani
Majorana
Maldacena
Migdal
Mills
Møller
Naimark
Nambu
Neveu
Nishijima
Oehme
Oppenheimer
Osterwalder
Parisi
Pauli
Peskin
Plefka
Polyakov
Pomeranchuk
Popov
Proca
Rubakov
Ruelle
Salam
Schrader
Schwarz
Schwinger
Segal
Seiberg
Semenoff
Shifman
Shirkov
Skyrme
Sommerfield
Stora
Stueckelberg
Sudarshan
Symanzik
Thirring
Tomonaga
Tyutin
Vainshtein
Veltman
Virasoro
Ward
Weinberg
Weisskopf
Wentzel
Wess
Wetterich
Weyl
Wick
Wightman
Wigner
Wilczek
Wilson
Witten
Yang
Yukawa
Zamolodchikov
Zamolodchikov
Zee
Zimmermann
Zinn-Justin
Zuber
Zumino
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Modern physics
Schrödinger and Einstein field equations
Founders
Max Planck
Albert Einstein
Niels Bohr
Max Born
Werner Heisenberg
Erwin Schrödinger
Pascual Jordan
Wolfgang Pauli
Paul Dirac
Ernest Rutherford
Louis de Broglie
Satyendra Nath Bose
Concepts
Topology
Space
Time
Energy
Matter
Work
Randomness
Information
Entropy
Light
Particle
Wave
Branches
Applied
Experimental
Theoretical
Mathematical
Philosophy of physics
Quantum mechanics
Quantum field theory
Quantum information
Quantum computation
Electromagnetism
Weak interaction
Electroweak interaction
Strong interaction
Atomic
Particle
Nuclear
Atomic, molecular, and optical
Condensed matter
Statistical
Complex systems
Non-linear dynamics
Biophysics
Neurophysics
Plasma physics
Special relativity
General relativity
Astrophysics
Cosmology
Theories of gravitation
Quantum gravity
Theory of everything
Scientists
Witten
Röntgen
Becquerel
Lorentz
Planck
Curie
Wien
Skłodowska-Curie
Sommerfeld
Rutherford
Soddy
Onnes
Einstein
Wilczek
Born
Weyl
Bohr
Kramers
Schrödinger
de Broglie
Laue
Bose
Compton
Pauli
Walton
Fermi
van der Waals
Heisenberg
Dyson
Zeeman
Moseley
Hilbert
Gödel
Jordan
Dirac
Wigner
Hawking
P. W. Anderson
Lemaître
Thomson
Poincaré
Wheeler
Penrose
Millikan
Nambu
von Neumann
Higgs
Hahn
Feynman
Yang
Lee
Lenard
Salam
't Hooft
Veltman
Bell
Gell-Mann
J. J. Thomson
Raman
Bragg
Bardeen
Shockley
Chadwick
Lawrence
Zeilinger
Goudsmit
Uhlenbeck
Categories
Modern physics
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Freeman John DysonFRS (15 December 1923 – 28 February 2020)[1] was a British-American theoretical physicist and mathematician known for his works in quantum field theory, astrophysics, random matrices, mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics, condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, and engineering.[a][3] 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 Scientists.[4]
Dyson originated several concepts that bear his name, such as Dyson's transform, a fundamental technique in additive number theory,[5] which he developed as part of his proof of Mann's theorem;[6] the Dyson tree, a hypothetical genetically engineered plant capable of growing in a comet; the Dyson series, a perturbative series where each term is represented by Feynman diagrams; the Dyson sphere, a thought experiment that attempts to explain how a space-faring civilization would meet its energy requirements with a hypothetical megastructure that completely encompasses a star and captures a large percentage of its power output; and Dyson's eternal intelligence, a means by which an immortal society of intelligent beings in an open universe could escape the prospect of the heat death of the universe by extending subjective time to infinity while expending only a finite amount of energy.
Dyson disagreed with the scientific consensus on climate change. He believed that some of the effects of increased CO2 levels are favourable and not taken into account by climate scientists, such as increased agricultural yield, and further that the positive benefits of CO2 likely outweigh the negative effects.[7][8][9] He was skeptical about the simulation models used to predict climate change, arguing that political efforts to reduce causes of climate change distract from other global problems that should take priority.
^ abGeorge Dyson (June 2022). "Freeman John Dyson. 15 December 1923—28 February 2020". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 73: 197–226. doi:10.1098/RSBM.2021.0050. ISSN 0080-4606. Wikidata Q115731803.
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