Difference between revisions of "Freeman Dyson"

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Freeman Dyson (1923–present), is an physicist and author.^[1]

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-'''Freeman Dyson''' (1923&ndash;present), is an [[atomic scientist]], [[mathematician]], and [[inventor]], best known today for his contributions to [[science fiction]], and for his refinements to the bagless [[vacuum cleaner]].
+'''Freeman Dyson''' (1923&ndash;present), is an physicist and author.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=2jMS6_jICOQC&pg=PA473&lpg=PA473&dq=bagless+dyson+freeman&source=web&ots=RKmDyrmriR&sig=IuUKem7iazICclLYI8utom3uSKs&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result The Houghton Mifflin Dictionary of Biography]</ref>
-Dyson was born in [[England]] in 1923. He received an honorary doctorate from Bates College, in 1990. During [[World War II]], Dyson flew for the [[RAF]] Bomber Command at Wyton. After the war, during the [[Eisenhower]] [[administration]], he worked on [[Project Orion]], a [[top]]-[[secret]] military project exploring the concept of nuclear flight, an idea which Dyson himself had proposed, in the 1960 science-fiction essay "Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of [[Infrared]] [[Radiation]]".
+==Notes==
+<references />
-The Dyson sphere is one of the most interesting innovations to come out of England, in the past fifty years.
-==See also==
-*[[Geodesic Dome]]
 [[Category:Astronomers]]
 [[Category:Physicists]]
 [[Category:Engineers]]