Publication

1979 - Harper & Row, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

70,750 words, Guess

Page Count

283 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC530/.092/4
  • DDCB
  • LCCQC16.D95 A33 1979
and 1 more
  • LCCQC16.D95

Description

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.

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Other Editions

  • Disturbing the universeHardcoverHarper & Row1979-01-01

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