Research Catalog

Title

Disturbing the universe / Freeman Dyson.

Author

Dyson, Freeman J.

Publication

New York : Harper & Row, c1979.

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Details

Description

x, 283 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

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.

Uniform Title

Power and Morality Collection at Harvard Business School

Subject

• Dyson, Freeman J
• Science
• Physicists > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

I. England -- The magic city -- The redemption of Faust -- The children's crusade -- The blood of a poet -- II. America -- A scientific apprenticeship -- A ride to Albuquerque -- The Ascent of F6 -- Prelude in E-Flat Minor -- Little red schoolhouse -- Saturn by 1970 -- Pilgrims, saints and spacemen -- Peacemaking -- The ethics of defense -- The murder of Dover Sharp -- The Island of Doctor Moreau -- Areopagitica -- III. Points beyond -- A distant mirror -- Thought experiments -- Extraterrestrials -- Clades and clones -- The greening of the galaxy -- Back to Earth -- The argument from design -- Dreams of Earth and sky.

ISBN

0060111089

LCCN

^^^78020665^//r83

OCLC

• 4956480
• SCSB-11624315

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library