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Maker of patterns : an autobiography through letters / Freeman Dyson

This collection of correspondence from 1940 to the early 1980s chronicles major developments in twentieth-century physics, including nuclear energy and the space programme. The letters provide a firsthand account of scientific discovery and the global physics community.

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