Freeman Dyson dead

[Nearly Sane]

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615301/freeman-dyson-in-his-own-words/

[Roses]

I hadn't heard of Freeman Dyson before. I have heard of Sir James Dyson having electrical goods created by his company.

[Harrowby Hall]

Are you saying that you have never of Sir George Dyson?

Sorry - I forgot that you are amusical. Sir George Dyson was a composer who became the director of the Royal College of Music. He wrote a symphony and a choral setting of The Canterbury Pilgrims. He also wrote - for the Festival of Britain - a choral song called A Song for a Festival which I think would be a really good national anthem instead of the miserable dirge we have to put up with ...

Your Dyson is the Brexit loving millionaire who has shifted his company from the UK to Malaysia.

Sir George Dyson was Freeman Dyson's father.

[Roses]

Are you saying that you have never of Sir George Dyson?

Sorry - I forgot that you are amusical. Sir George Dyson was a composer who became the director of the Royal College of Music. He wrote a symphony and a choral setting of The Canterbury Pilgrims. He also wrote - for the Festival of Britain - a choral song called A Song for a Festival which I think would be a really good national anthem instead of the miserable dirge we have to put up with ...

Your Dyson is the Brexit loving millionaire who has shifted his company from the UK to Malaysia.

Sir George Dyson was Freeman Dyson's father.

The only Dyson I have ever heard of is James Dyson.

[jeremyp]

I hadn't heard of Freeman Dyson before. I have heard of Sir James Dyson having electrical goods created by his company.

Freeman Dyson will be remembered far longer than James Brexit-is-great-but-I-am-based-in-Singapore Dyson. Freeman Dyson was a great physicist. James Dyson just invented a vacuum cleaner.

[Gordon]

Sounds like a chap who would have been fascinating to have a chat with.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/mar/01/freeman-dyson-obituary

[Outrider]

I'd heard of Freeman Dyson (initially, I think, through the Dyson Sphere concept), and new he'd been at Cornell and Princeton, but I hadn't realised he was British by birth.

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