Disturbing the universe

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Disturbing the universe

Freeman Dyson

BasicBooks, c1979

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Published as part of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program

Some works originally appeared in the New Yorker

Includes bibliographical notes and index

Description and Table of Contents

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 ground-breaking 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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  • NCID
    BA1916160X
  • ISBN
    • 0465016774
  • LCCN
    78020665
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    [New York]
  • Pages/Volumes
    xii, 283 p.
  • Size
    21 cm
  • Classification
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