{"id":103016,"date":"2020-02-28T12:23:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T20:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/renowned-mathematician-and-physicist-freeman-dyson-has-died-at-age-96"},"modified":"2020-02-28T12:23:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T20:23:19","slug":"renowned-mathematician-and-physicist-freeman-dyson-has-died-at-age-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/renowned-mathematician-and-physicist-freeman-dyson-has-died-at-age-96","title":{"rendered":"Renowned Mathematician And Physicist Freeman Dyson Has Died At Age 96"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/renowned-mathematician-and-physicist-freeman-dyson-has-died-at-age-96.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Freeman Dyson, renowned scientist and scholar, has died at 96, according to his daughter Mia.<\/p>\n<p>The British-born scientist and professor emeritus spent much of his career as a physics professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sns.ias.edu\/dyson\">his biography on the institute\u2019s website<\/a>. He was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/09\/world\/29-us-scientists-praise-iran-nuclear-deal-in-letter-to-obama.html\">among 29 scientists<\/a> who supported the Obama administration\u2019s 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. In 1967, he also acted as a military adviser regarding the use of tactical nuclear weapons in the Vietnam War, and in 1984 he wrote a book on the dangers of nuclear warfare.<\/p>\n<p>A futurist and space-enthusiast, Dyson had several scientific concepts named after him, including the \u201cDyson Tree,\u201d a genetically engineered plant that would be able to survive in a comet and grow in space. One of his ideas, the Dyson Sphere, was featured in an episode of the sci-fi series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2005\/futurist-freeman-dyson-gives-a-rare-public-lecture\/\"><em>Star Trek<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freeman Dyson, renowned scientist and scholar, has died at 96, according to his daughter Mia. The British-born scientist and professor emeritus spent much of his career as a physics professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, according to his biography on the institute\u2019s website. He was among 29 scientists who supported the Obama [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-military","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}