Disturbing the UniverseSpanning 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 groundbreaking 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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User Review - ben_a - LibraryThingA fascinating life -- road trips with Feynman, coming back to an empty house to find Teller at the piano. And shot throughout the Olympian science of the 50s and 60s. Read full review
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| Title | Disturbing the Universe Alfred P. Sloan Foundation series Harper colophon books |
| Author | Freeman J. Dyson |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harper & Row, 1979 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | Aug 24, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0060907711, 9780060907716 |
| Length | 283 pages |
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