Oppenheimer

Jeremy Bernstein, Member in the School of Mathematics/Natural Sciences from 1957–1959, gives a personal account of his time at the Institute, third IAS Director J. Robert Oppenheimer, whom he calls a "man of fashion in physics," and the field of...

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...

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...

One gets the sense that Freeman Dyson has seen everything. It’s not just that at 92 he’s had a front row seat on scientific breakthroughs for the past century, or that he’s been friends and colleagues with many of the giants of 20th-century physics...