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- Birth nameFreeman John Dyson
- Freeman Dyson was born on December 15, 1923 in Crowthorne, England, UK. He is known for Citizen Kurchatov: Stalin's Bomb Maker (1999), The Nuclear Expedition and The Oakes. He was married to Imme Jung and Verena Esther Huber. He died on February 28, 2020 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
- SpousesImme Jung(1958 - present) (his death, 4 children)Verena Esther Huber(1950 - 1958) (divorced, 2 children)
- During the year of 1948-1949, worked at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton with J. Robert Oppenheimer. He returned to the Institute in 1953, to work there for most of the rest of his life.
- In 1947, he came to the United States on a Commonwealth Fellowship as a graduate student in physics at Cornell University.
- A Cambridge undergraduate in the early years of World War II, he became a civilian technician with the Royal Air Force Bomber Command in 1941.
- In 1957 he became a naturalized American citizen.
- Famous writer of science books, a researcher into space travel and a lecturer on disarmament.
- The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind together across barriers of nationality, race and language. I have been doubly lucky, being accepted as a member of both.
- As measured from space, the whole earth is growing greener as a result of carbon dioxide, so it's increasing agricultural yields. It's increasing forests and it's increasing growth in the biological world, and that's more important for sure than the effects on climate.
- [2010, on the Nobel Prize for physics] Every year I expect Stephen Hawking to be chosen and every year I am disappointed.
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