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Dyson was a Scholar at the renowned Winchester College from 1936 to 1941.

He was received ( as one of 20 distinguished Old Wykehamists ) on 4 May 2011 at the Ad Portas celebration, the highest honour that the College bestows.

After leaving Winchester he joined the operational research section at RAF Bomber Command, where he remained for the rest of World War II.

After the war, he obtained a BA in mathematics from the University of Cambridge ( 1945 ) and was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1946 to 1949.

In 1947 he moved to the US, on a fellowship at Cornell University and thence joined the faculty there as a physics professor in 1951 without a PhD.

In 1953, he took up a post at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ.

In 1957, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.