Disturbing The Universe

Download or read book Disturbing The Universe written by Freeman Dyson and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 1981-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of one of the world's greatest scientists 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 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.