02-28-2020, 10:38 PM
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/scien...ies-at-96/
A GREAT FIGURE in 20th-century physics, Freeman J. Dyson—the theorist who unified the world of the atom and the electron, a critic of nuclear weapons tests, a designer of space civilizations, and a steadfast climate change contrarian—died on February 28, 2020, in Princeton, New Jersey. He was 96 years old.
At his death, Dyson still maintained an office at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey, where he took up residence in 1953 as a professor of physics. The IAS confirmed Dyson's passing to National Geographic.
"No life is more entangled with the Institute and impossible to capture—architect of modern particle physics, free-range mathematician, advocate of space travel, astrobiology and disarmament, futurist, eternal graduate student, rebel to many preconceived ideas including his own, thoughtful essayist, all the time a wise observer of the human scene," Robbert Dijkgraaf, director of the IAS, said in a statement. "His secret was simply saying yes to everything in life, till the very end."
R.I.P. Freeman Dyson . You may know his name from the term "Dyson sphere" (or "Dyson swarm"): he was the first person to come up with the concept, and while we're not going to be building one any time soon, it's possible that it'll thoroughly transform our civilisation one day in the far, far future. Freeman Dyson may be gone, but if this ever comes to pass, he certainly won't be forgotten.
Anyway, returning to the here and now: I offer my condolences to his friends and family.
A GREAT FIGURE in 20th-century physics, Freeman J. Dyson—the theorist who unified the world of the atom and the electron, a critic of nuclear weapons tests, a designer of space civilizations, and a steadfast climate change contrarian—died on February 28, 2020, in Princeton, New Jersey. He was 96 years old.
At his death, Dyson still maintained an office at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey, where he took up residence in 1953 as a professor of physics. The IAS confirmed Dyson's passing to National Geographic.
"No life is more entangled with the Institute and impossible to capture—architect of modern particle physics, free-range mathematician, advocate of space travel, astrobiology and disarmament, futurist, eternal graduate student, rebel to many preconceived ideas including his own, thoughtful essayist, all the time a wise observer of the human scene," Robbert Dijkgraaf, director of the IAS, said in a statement. "His secret was simply saying yes to everything in life, till the very end."
R.I.P. Freeman Dyson . You may know his name from the term "Dyson sphere" (or "Dyson swarm"): he was the first person to come up with the concept, and while we're not going to be building one any time soon, it's possible that it'll thoroughly transform our civilisation one day in the far, far future. Freeman Dyson may be gone, but if this ever comes to pass, he certainly won't be forgotten.
Anyway, returning to the here and now: I offer my condolences to his friends and family.
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