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Disturbing The Universe

By Freeman Dyson

Book information

Publisher
Basic Books
Year
1981
ISBN
0465016774, 9780465016778
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
28 MB (29681743 bytes)
Series
Sloan Foundation Science Series
Edition
Revised
Pages
304\295
Time added
2018-04-04 18:08:55
Scientists;Professionals & Academics;Biographies &

Description

Spanning the years from World War II, when he was a civilian statistician in the operations research section of the Royal Air Force Bomber Command, through his studies with Hans Bethe at Cornell University, his early friendship with Richard Feynman, and his postgraduate work with J. Robert Oppenheimer, Freeman Dyson has composed an autobiography unlike any other. Dyson evocatively conveys the thrill of a deep engagement with the world-be it as scientist, citizen, student, or parent. Detailing a unique career not limited to his groundbreaking work in physics, Dyson discusses his interest in minimizing loss of life in war, in disarmament, and even in thought experiments on the expansion of our frontiers into the galaxies.

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