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Dr. Dyson is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Born in England, Freeman Dyson came to Cornell University as a Commonwealth Fellow in 1947 and settled permanently in the U.S. in 1951. Professor Dyson is not only a theoretical physicist; his career has spanned a large variety of practical concerns. In World War II, he worked for the Royal Air Force doing operations research. Since that time he has been unable to stop thinking about the great human problems of war and peace. In 1979, he published Disturbing the Universe, a scientific autobiography interspersed with meditation on the human condition. Weapons and Hope was another meditation, attempting to understand in greater depth the cultural role of nuclear weapons and nuclear strategies. Professor Dyson’s most recent book, The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet, is concerned with technology’s potentially powerful role as an agent for worldwide social justice. He has received honorary degrees from 18 universities, and has won many prestigious awards, including the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, the Max Plank Medal of the German Physical Society, the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize, the Enrico Fermi Award of the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Lewis Thomas Prize of Rockefeller University. He joined SELF’s board in January 1998.
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