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.

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 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'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 ...

When Freeman Dyson passed away in February at the age of 96, the world lost one of its most versatile scientists and astute humanists. Trained as a mathematician, Dyson had an appetite for number ...

“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.

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 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.

Our rosy future, according to Freeman Dyson Climate change is nothing to worry about, says the eminent physicist. Let's celebrate genetic engineering and our ability to design a new world of ...

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.