Freeman Dyson

Nautilus presents short excerpts from nine of Freeman Dyson’s letters taken from his new book Maker of Patterns, with a focus on his relationship with the physicist Richard Feynman. Dyson and Feynman had both professional and personal bonds: Dyson...

Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences, spoke with physicist and author Lisa Randall at the New York Public Library on April 10, 2018, about his new book Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters (Liveright...

The history of each branch of science can be divided into three phases. The first phase is exploration, to see what nature is doing. The second phase is precise observation and measurement, to describe nature accurately. The third phase is...

Kai Bird of the New York Times reviews Professor Emeritus Freeman Dyson's Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters (Liveright, 2018), writing:

"He knew Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Julian Schwinger and, well, just about anyone worth...

The Institute for Advanced Study will celebrate the publication of Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters by Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences, with a public event at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, April 13, in W...

Ann Finkbeiner of Nature reviews Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters (Liveright, 2018) by Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences, writing:

“Dyson notices everything. He describes Americans’ friendliness...

Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences, will recall his life story and recount many of the major advances in twentieth-century science in a discussion of his new autobiography Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through...

Professor Emeritus Freeman Dyson will speak with physicist and author Lisa Randall about his new autobiography Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters (Liveright, 2018), at 6:30 p.m. on April 10 at the New York Public Library. The volume...

December 7, 1947
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Yesterday I had a talk with [Hans] Bethe about my future. . . . He said I should spend the second year at Princeton with [J. Robert] Oppenheimer, and that Oppenheimer would be glad to look after me...

Frequent Director's Visitor Graham Farmelo reviews The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality by physicist Paul Halpern. The work, he writes, “confirms the received opinion that Feynman was one of the...