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Freeman Dyson

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British-American theoretical physicist (1923–2020), long resident at the Institute for Advanced Study. He unified the rival formulations of quantum electrodynamics in the late 1940s and worked across nuclear engineering, astrobiology, and pure mathematics. His 1972 tea-time conversation with Hugh Montgomery linked the spacing of Riemann zeros to the statistics of random matrices, opening a bridge between number theory and quantum physics.

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