Freeman Dyson - Presenting the Lamb shift findings (59/157)

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Freeman Dyson (1923-2020), who was born in England, moved to Cornell University after graduating from Cambridge University with a BA in Mathematics. He subsequently became a professor and worked on nuclear reactors, solid state physics, ferromagnetism, astrophysics and biology. He published several books and, among other honours, was awarded the Heineman Prize and the Royal Society's Hughes Medal. [Listener: Sam Schweber; date recorded:1998]

TRANSCRIPT: [SS] And... so you finish this Lamb shift calculation for spinless particles?

Yes, that... I finished that some time around January as far as I remember. And then I went to a meeting of the American Physical Society to talk about it, and that was sort of my introduction to the public and...

[SS] This was in New York?

Yes.

[SS] At Columbia even?

Probably; I mean I don't remember in detail.

[SS] It's the New York meeting.

In any case, that was where I became known.

[SS] You first met people like...

People like Oppenheimer and Schwinger and such people were all there and, so I became a person at that point and they recognised that here was somebody.