Freeman Dyson
Embodying “the ideal of the scientist as iconoclast” (Wired), Dr. Freeman Dyson is one of the
world’s most intriguing and accomplished theoretical physicists and
mathematicians, renowned for his work in quantum electrodynamics, solid-state
physics, nuclear engineering, futurism, metaphysics, and astronomy. In addition
to a decades-long career in academia and scientific publishing, he is a member
of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a Fellow of
the Royal Society, and is the winner of the Enrico Fermi Award, among dozens of
other honors. Ranging in time from the seventeenth-century scientific
revolution to the future of the human race, Dyson’s new collection of essays
explores and celebrates the unconventional ideas that have changed the world.