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Description of  Dear Professor Dyson: Twenty Years Of Correspondence Between Freeman Dyson And Undergraduate Students On Science, Technology, Society And Life

Freeman Dyson has designed nuclear reactors and bomb-powered spacecraft he has studied the origins of life and the possibilities for the long-term future he showed quantum mechanics to be consistent with electrodynamics and started cosmological eschatology he has won international recognition for his work in science and for his work in reconciling science to religion he has advised generals and congressional committees. An STS (Science, Technology, Society) curriculum or discussion group that engages topics such as nuclear policies, genetic technologies, environmental sustainability, the role of religion in a scientific society, and a hard look towards the future, would count itself privileged to include Professor Dyson as a class participant and mentor. In this book, STS topics are not discussed as objectified abstractions, but through personal stories. Read more