Today I Learned

To listen to more of Freeman Dyson’s stories, go to the playlist: Freeman Dyson (1923-2020), who was born in England, moved to Cornell University after graduating from Cambridge University with a BA in Mathematics. He subsequently became a professor and worked on nuclear reactors, solid state physics, ferromagnetism, astrophysics and biology. [Listener: Sam Schweber; date recorded: 1998] TRANSCRIPT: So I got on the bus in Berkeley and I always loved these long Greyhound bus rides, especially because I never stopped on the way. In those days of course it was very different from Greyhounds today. They had these long rest stops where you could go to the bathroom and get meals. They didn’t have bathrooms on the bus. And so you could actually see a lot of the country as you went across. You’d have usually half an hour or an hour at the rest stops, so I saw a good deal and, and I remember Wyoming and I remember Salt Lake City and I remember