Re: Freeman Dyson won the 2000 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion

From: Joel Peter Anderson (joela@nts.umn.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 23 2000 - 10:04:21 EST

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    On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Moorad Alexanian wrote:

    > The curious thing about Dyson is that he only has a Master's degree--not
    > that I think that much about a Ph.D. Dyson first formulated a method (the
    > renormalization prescription) for the removal of infinities that plagued
    > quantum electrodynamics. The latter is something that Dirac never quite
    > accepted as a feature of a correct theory of electrodynamics.

    No, actually he "only" has a bachelor in mathematics from Cambridge.

    He's just put it to better use than most make of post graduate degrees. :)

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