Freeman Dyson (1923-2020) was a physicist, co-founder of perturbative quantum field theory (cf. Schwinger-Tomonaga-Feynman-Dyson).
Freeman Dyson interviews at Web Of Stories YT playlist
Freeman Dyson, Missed opportunities, Bulletin of the AMS, Volume 78, Number 5, September 1972 (pdf)
containing the now famous quote:
“the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.”
which is in reference to:
“The first clear sign of a breakdown in communication between physics and mathematics was the extraordinary lack of interest among mathematicians in James Clerk Maxwell‘s discovery of the laws of electromagnetism”
For more quotes from this text see also at Ausdehnungslehre and at AQFT on curved spacetime.
Freeman Dyson, Divergence of perturbation theory in quantum electrodynamics, Phys. Rev. 85, 631 (1952)
which is the origin of mathematical perturbative quantum field theory, see Schwinger-Tomonaga-Feynman-Dyson.
On Richard Feynman:
Freeman J. Dyson: Feynman’s proof of Maxwell’s equations, American Journal of Physics 58 (1990) 209-211 [pdf, pdf]
(recounting an observation by Richard Feynman)
comment by N. Dombey: Am. J. Phys. 59 1 (1991) 85 [journal, scan]
comment by I. E. Farquhar: Am. J. Phys. 59 1 (1991) 87 [journal, scan]
Freeman Dyson, Why is Maxwell’s Theory so hard to understand?, Proceedings of The Second European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2007 (doi: 10.1049/ic.2007.1146)
On whether/how experiments can detect gravitons:
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