Freeman John Dyson was born in Crowthorne, England, on Dec. 15, 1923, the son of George Dyson, a composer who was later knighted, and the former Mildred Atkey, a lawyer.

In the 1960s, physicist and polymath Freeman Dyson cooked up the idea of these eponymous spheres. He envisioned that a sufficiently advanced society would have an insatiable need for living space ...

Freeman Dyson passed away last week, at the age of 96. He knew no one could have all the answers, but I got the impression that he liked it that way.

Freeman Dyson was known for groundbreaking work in physics and mathematics but his curiosity ranged far beyond those fields. "He never got a Ph.D.," says Robbert Dijkgraaf, ...

In 1960, visionary physicist Freeman Dyson proposed that an advanced alien civilization would someday quit fooling around with kindergarten-level stuff like wind turbines and nuclear reactors and ...

Freeman Dyson's alien-hunting idea has worked its way into the culture. Freeman Dyson may be gone, but his famous alien-hunting idea will likely persist far into the future. Dyson, a quantum ...

“Freeman Dyson said that we should dismantle Jupiter — the whole planet (for the raw materials).” That supercolossal scale probably means that Dyson spheres, if they exist at all, are very rare.

Freeman Dyson, who died on Feb 28 at the age of 96, was an intellectual giant and well-regarded as a physicist, mathematician and public intellectual—and also as a mentor, grandfather and friend.

Freeman Dyson said it would take all of Jupiter to make a Dyson sphere. Because of this, human-built Dyson spheres will remain purely science fiction for at least another couple centuries.

“Freeman Dyson said that we should dismantle Jupiter — the whole planet (for the raw materials).” That supercolossal scale probably means that Dyson spheres, if they exist at all, are very rare.