| Freeman Dyson  AKA Freeman John Dyson
Born: 15-Dec-1923
Birthplace: Crowthorne, England
Died: 28-Feb-2020
Location of death: Princeton, NJ
Cause of death: Accident - Fall
Gender: Male
Religion: Christian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist, Mathematician Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Theoretical physicist at Institute for Advanced Study Military service: Royal Air Force Bomber Command (civilian technician 1941) Father: George Dyson
Mother: Mildred Atkey
Wife: Verena Esther Huber (m. 1950, div. 1958, one daughter, one son)
Daughter: Esther Dyson (technologist, b. 14-Jul-1951)
Son: George Dyson (author, b. 1953)
Wife: Imme Jung (one son, five daughters)
High School: Winchester College
University: BA Mathematics,Trinity College, Cambridge University (1945)
Professor: Cornell University
Professor: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (1953-)
Accademia dei Lincei
American Philosophical Society 1976
American Physical Society Fellow
JASON
National Academy of Sciences
National Space Society Board of Governors
Royal Society
Space Studies Institute Board of Directors
Lorentz Medal 1966
Hughes Medal 1968
Wolf Prize in Physics 1981 (with Gerardus 't Hooft and Victor Weisskopf)
Matteucci Medal 1989
Oersted Medal 1991
Enrico Fermi Award 1993
Templeton Prize 2000
Naturalized US Citizen 1957
Traveled to the USSR 1966
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
The Day After Trinity (20-Jan-1981) · Himself
Author of books:
Disturbing the Universe (1979, memoir)
Weapons and Hope (1984, international affairs)
Imagined Worlds (1997, essays)
The Sun, the Genome & the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions (1999, history of science)
The Scientist as Rebel (2006, essays)
Advanced Quantum Mechanics (2007, science)
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