James Dyson (physicist)

For other people named James Dyson, see James Dyson (disambiguation).

James Dyson FRS (10 December 1914 – 22 January 1990) was a British physicist who specialized in optics.

Dyson was the son of a joiner and cabinet maker with a flair for invention.^[1] In October 1939 he was living in Rugby, Warwickshire, and was an instrument transformer design engineer.^[2] After working in the Research Laboratory of Associated Electrical Industries, he joined the Optics Division of the National Physical Laboratory. Dyson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1968.^[1]