Freeman John Dyson FRS (15 December 1923 – 28 February 2020) was a British-American theoretical physicist and mathematician known for his works in quantum...
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explored by the physicist Freeman Dyson in his 1960 paper "Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation". Dyson speculated that such structures...
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Although Frank Dyson and theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson were not known to be related, their fathers Rev Watson Dyson and George Dyson both hailed from...
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tree) capable of growing inside a comet, suggested by the physicist Freeman Dyson. Plants may be able to produce a breathable atmosphere within the hollow...
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scattering theory, a part of mathematical physics, the Dyson series, formulated by Freeman Dyson, is a perturbative expansion of the time evolution operator...
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name "Gordon Freeman" during a conversation with the game's writer Marc Laidlaw in his car. Laidlaw had originally named the character "Dyson Poincaré",...
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suggested by physicist Freeman Dyson Eufloria (formerly called Dyson), a video game based on the idea of Dyson trees USS Dyson (DD-572), a United States...
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Lane (UK) ISBN 9781846147449 George Dyson's Mother, Verena Huber-Dyson George Dyson (June 2022). "Freeman John Dyson. 15 December 1923—28 February 2020"...
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startups. Esther Dyson's father was English-born, American-naturalized physicist Freeman Dyson, and her mother was mathematician Verena Huber-Dyson, of Swiss...
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star systems. A Dyson sphere or Dyson swarm and similar constructs are hypothetical megastructures originally described by Freeman Dyson as a system of...
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Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) (category Freeman Dyson)
The project was led by Ted Taylor at General Atomics and physicist Freeman Dyson who, at Taylor's request, took a year away from the Institute for Advanced...
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Dyson's eternal intelligence (the Dyson Scenario) is a hypothetical concept, proposed by Freeman Dyson in 1979, by which an immortal society of intelligent...
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TRIGA (category Freeman Dyson)
team for TRIGA, which included Edward Teller, was led by the physicist Freeman Dyson. TRIGA is a swimming pool reactor that can be installed without a containment...
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Ted Taylor (physicist) (category Freeman Dyson)
and by 1956 he was famous for his work in small-bomb development. Freeman Dyson is quoted as saying, "A great part of the small-bomb development of...
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She subsequently married Freeman Dyson in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on August 11, 1950. They had two children together, Esther Dyson (born July 14, 1951, in...
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In mathematics, the Dyson Brownian motion is a real-valued continuous-time stochastic process named for Freeman Dyson. Dyson studied this process in the...
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philanthropist Frank Dyson (1931–1979), British rugby league footballer Frank Watson Dyson (1868–1939), English astronomer Freeman Dyson (1923–2020), British-American...
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Relics (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (category Freeman Dyson)
Dyson sphere concept, which was proposed by Freeman Dyson in 1959. The starship Enterprise, responding to a distress call, discovers a nearby Dyson sphere...
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solicitor. They had a son, Freeman, who became a noted theoretical physicist and mathematician, and a daughter, Alice. In 1917 Dyson received the degree of...
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The Schwinger–Dyson equations (SDEs) or Dyson–Schwinger equations, named after Julian Schwinger and Freeman Dyson, are general relations between correlation...
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Neumann and Enrico Fermi. In a 2004 article in the journal Nature, Freeman Dyson recounts his meeting with Fermi in 1953. Fermi evokes his friend von...
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Crank of a partition (redirect from Dyson's crank)
first introduced without a definition by Freeman Dyson, who hypothesised its existence in a 1944 paper. Dyson gave a list of properties this yet-to-be-defined...
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Freeman Dyson. Lamb won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 for his discoveries related to the Lamb shift. In 1978, on Lamb's 65th birthday, Freeman Dyson...
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Infinite in All Directions (category Works by Freeman Dyson)
technology, the origin of life and eschatology, by theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson. The book is based on the author's Gifford Lectures delivered in Aberdeen...
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has been advanced and examined by Homer Jacobson, Edward F. Moore, Freeman Dyson, John von Neumann, Konrad Zuse and in more recent times by K. Eric Drexler...
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Astrochicken (category Freeman Dyson)
name given to a thought experiment expounded by theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson. An Astrochicken is a small, one-kilogram spacecraft, a self-replicating...
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formulation and are still mainstays in physics and chemistry. According to Freeman Dyson, Teller thought about his problems using basic principles of physics...
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parachute. Operational research experts, including British scientist Freeman Dyson, amongst others, attempted unsuccessfully to have the escape hatch enlarged...
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one of the "gang of four" consisting of himself, his brother Michael, Freeman Dyson and James Lighthill. In 1941, he won a scholarship to Balliol College...
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Dyson's transform is a fundamental technique in additive number theory. It was developed by Freeman Dyson as part of his proof of Mann's theorem,: 17 ...
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