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03354aam a2200493 i 4500 001 F68E5B643A2811E895253E5697128E48 003 SILO 005 20180407010023 008 180119t20182018nyu b 001 0aeng c 010 $a 2017055725 020 $a 0871403862 020 $a 9780871403865 035 $a (OCoLC)1021069509 040 $a OU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d KL8 $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d GK8 $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCL $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a QC16.D95 $b A3 2018 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Dyson, Freeman J., $e author. 245 10 $a Maker of patterns : $b an autobiography through letters / $c Freeman Dyson. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Liveright Publishing Corporation, $c [2018] 300 $a xvi, 400 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Great minds around the billiard table -- War and peace -- Truth and reconciliation -- Cornell student -- Go west, young man -- Demigods on stilts -- Nolo contendere -- Well, doc, you're in -- The physicist in love -- Cornell professor -- Mycenean tablets and spin waves -- Moscow and La Jolla -- The forsaken merman -- A spaceship and a wedding -- Homecoming -- Working for peace -- Marching for justice -- Sitting in judgment -- Two deaths and two departures -- Adventures of a psychiatric nurse -- Whale worshippers and moonchildren. 520 $a "Both recalling his life story and recounting many of the major advances in twentieth-century science, a renowned physicist shares his autobiography through letters. While recognizing that quantum mechanics "demands serious attention," Albert Einstein in 1926 admonished fellow physicist Max Born that the theory "does not bring us closer to the secrets of the Old One." Aware that "there are deep mysteries that Nature intends to keep for herself," Freeman Dyson, the 94-year-old theoretical physicist, has nonetheless chronicled the stories of those who were engaged in solving some of the most challenging quandaries of twentieth-century physics. Written between 1940 and the early 1980s, these letters to relatives form an historic account of modern science and its greatest players, including J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, and Hans Bethe. Whether reflecting on the horrors of World War II, the moral dilemmas of nuclear development, the challenges of the space program, or the considerable demands of raising six children, Dyson offers a firsthand account of one of the greatest periods of scientific discovery of our modern age"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Dyson, Freeman J. 650 0 $a Physicists $z United States $v Biography. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 12 952 $l DPPE403 $d 20240611023351.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722055613.0 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20200829014549.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204091531.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110073427.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20190418010346.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20181010011402.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006114406.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20180801011353.0 952 $l ZBPE245 $d 20180704043636.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180605014220.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20180407010120.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F68E5B643A2811E895253E5697128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search