1923 - 2020
Freeman John Dyson (15 December 1923 – 28 February 2020) was a British-American theoretical and mathematical physicist, mathematician, and statistician known for his works in quantum field theory, astrophysics, random matrices, mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics, condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, and engineering. He was Professor Emeritus in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, a member of the Board of Visitors of Ralston College, and a member of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.Dyson originated several concepts that bear his name, such as Dyson's transform, a fundamental technique in additive number theory, which he developed as part of his proof of Mann's theorem; the Dyson tree, a hypothetical genetically-engineered plant capable of growing in a comet; the Dyson series, a perturbative series where each term is represented by Feynman diagrams; the Dyson sphere, a thought experiment that attempts to explain how a space-faring civilization would meet its energy requirements with a hypothetical megastructure that completely encompasses a star and captures a large percentage of its power output; and Dyson's eternal intelligence, a means by which an immortal society of intelligent beings in an open universe could escape the prospect of the heat death of the universe by extending subjective time to infinity while expending only a finite amount of energy. Dyson disagreed with the establishment scientific position that carbon dioxide (CO2) is a material driver of planetary temperature increases. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Freeman Dyson has received more than 1,925,780 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Freeman Dyson is the 197th most popular physicist (up from 308th in 2019), the 658th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,057th in 2019) and the 27th most popular British Physicist.
Freeman Dyson is a physicist and mathematician who has contributed to a number of fields, including nuclear physics, quantum electrodynamics, solid-state physics, astrophysics, and mathematics. He is most famous for his work in quantum electrodynamics.
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Among physicists, Freeman Dyson ranks 197 out of 721. Before him are Richard E. Taylor, Vitaly Ginzburg, John L. Hall, Willis Lamb, Nicolaas Bloembergen, and Melvin Schwartz. After him are Louis Néel, Claude-Louis Navier, Philip Warren Anderson, Abdus Salam, John Vincent Atanasoff, and Isamu Akasaki.
1929 - 2018
HPI: 71.41
Rank: 191
1916 - 2009
HPI: 71.37
Rank: 192
1934 - Present
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 193
1913 - 2008
HPI: 71.31
Rank: 194
1920 - 2017
HPI: 71.25
Rank: 195
1932 - 2006
HPI: 71.24
Rank: 196
1923 - 2020
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 197
1904 - 2000
HPI: 71.21
Rank: 198
1785 - 1836
HPI: 71.19
Rank: 199
1923 - 2020
HPI: 71.10
Rank: 200
1926 - 1996
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 201
1903 - 1995
HPI: 71.06
Rank: 202
1929 - Present
HPI: 71.04
Rank: 203
Among people born in 1923, Freeman Dyson ranks 34. Before him are Arvid Carlsson, Lola Flores, Antoni Tàpies, Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, and Markus Wolf. After him are Philip Warren Anderson, Morris, Horst Tappert, Bert Trautmann, Linda Christian, and Erland Josephson. Among people deceased in 2020, Freeman Dyson ranks 56. Before him are Jerry Stiller, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Michael Lonsdale, Eduard Limonov, Robert Hossein, and Dana Zátopková. After him are Florian Schneider, Manolis Glezos, Maj Sjöwall, Philip Warren Anderson, Kobe Bryant, and Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz.
1923 - 2018
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 28
1923 - 1995
HPI: 71.66
Rank: 29
1923 - 2012
HPI: 71.63
Rank: 30
1923 - 2001
HPI: 71.53
Rank: 31
1923 - 2012
HPI: 71.48
Rank: 32
1923 - 2006
HPI: 71.39
Rank: 33
1923 - 2020
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 34
1923 - 2020
HPI: 71.10
Rank: 35
1923 - 2001
HPI: 70.97
Rank: 36
1923 - 2008
HPI: 70.75
Rank: 37
1923 - 2013
HPI: 70.60
Rank: 38
1923 - 2011
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 39
1923 - 2012
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 40
1927 - 2020
HPI: 71.72
Rank: 50
1964 - 2020
HPI: 71.42
Rank: 51
1931 - 2020
HPI: 71.29
Rank: 52
1943 - 2020
HPI: 71.27
Rank: 53
1927 - 2020
HPI: 71.27
Rank: 54
1922 - 2020
HPI: 71.24
Rank: 55
1923 - 2020
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 56
1947 - 2020
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 57
1922 - 2020
HPI: 71.13
Rank: 58
1935 - 2020
HPI: 71.12
Rank: 59
1923 - 2020
HPI: 71.10
Rank: 60
1978 - 2020
HPI: 71.05
Rank: 61
1936 - 2020
HPI: 70.82
Rank: 62
Among people born in United Kingdom, Freeman Dyson ranks 658 out of 6,924. Before him are Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover (1771), Patrick White (1912), Robert Carlyle (1961), Emma, Lady Hamilton (1765), James Lovelock (1919), and Jude Law (1972). After him are Gerard Butler (1969), Benjamin Hornigold (1680), Richard Griffiths (1947), John Ambrose Fleming (1849), Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428), and William Tyndale (1494).
1771 - 1851
HPI: 71.28
Rank: 652
1912 - 1990
HPI: 71.28
Rank: 653
1961 - Present
HPI: 71.27
Rank: 654
1765 - 1815
HPI: 71.26
Rank: 655
1919 - Present
HPI: 71.25
Rank: 656
1972 - Present
HPI: 71.24
Rank: 657
1923 - 2020
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 658
1969 - Present
HPI: 71.20
Rank: 659
1680 - 1719
HPI: 71.20
Rank: 660
1947 - 2013
HPI: 71.15
Rank: 661
1849 - 1945
HPI: 71.14
Rank: 662
1428 - 1471
HPI: 71.14
Rank: 663
1494 - 1536
HPI: 71.13
Rank: 664
Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Freeman Dyson ranks 27. Before him are George Paget Thomson (1892), Edward Victor Appleton (1892), Roger Penrose (1931), William Shockley (1910), David Brewster (1781), and Osborne Reynolds (1842). After him are Joseph Swan (1828), David J. Thouless (1934), John Cockcroft (1897), Anthony James Leggett (1938), Daniel Rutherford (1749), and Nevill Francis Mott (1905).
1892 - 1975
HPI: 74.04
Rank: 21
1892 - 1965
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 22
1931 - Present
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 23
1910 - 1989
HPI: 72.94
Rank: 24
1781 - 1868
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 25
1842 - 1912
HPI: 71.89
Rank: 26
1923 - 2020
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 27
1828 - 1914
HPI: 70.63
Rank: 28
1934 - 2019
HPI: 70.58
Rank: 29
1897 - 1967
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 30
1938 - Present
HPI: 70.21
Rank: 31
1749 - 1819
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 32
1905 - 1996
HPI: 70.10
Rank: 33