Freeman Dyson, visionary extraordinaire, was one of the most inventive thinkers of our age: discovering new mathematics, challenging fundamental physics, colonizing space,... video Freeman Dyson, Part I: From Physics to the Far Future Episode 01 Season 21 26:47 Watch
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Stephen Barr Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware; President, Society of Catholic Scientists
Rodney Holder Former Course Director, Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, Cambridge University
Brian Keating Professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego; Fellow, American Physical Society
Leon Lederman Nobel Prize in Physics; Director Emeritus, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)
Tom McLeish Professor (Emeritus) of Natural Philosophy, Department of Physics, University of York, UK
Laura Mersini-Houghton Professor of Theoretical Physics & Cosmology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
