Phillip Schewe, Joint Quantum Institute
November 12, 2013

Freeman Dyson is not one man but ten. Apart from his critical work on quantum electrodynamics Dyson has been involved in designing nuclear reactors and rocketships, in securing a limited test ban treaty and keeping tactical nuclear weapons out of Vietnam, in proposing a novel theory for the origin of life, and in launching the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. He helped create adaptive optics and originated the study of the cosmos in the distant future. Dyson is also an outspoken speaker on topics such as climate change, biotechnology, and the prospective human migration into space.

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