*What an unusual man.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/remembering-the-unstoppable-freeman-dyson-20200413/
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Despite this prodigious scientific output, Dyson never bothered earning an actual Ph.D., though he received more than 20 honorary doctorates. As an eternal graduate student, he had license to question everything and everybody. It was his scientific get-out-of-jail card, and he used it fondly and frequently. Always a contrarian, Dyson was orthogonal to many preconceived ideas, sometimes including his own.
