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==Honors and awards== * Dyson was elected a [[List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1952|Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1952]].<ref name="frs" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Dyson |first=George |date=2022 |title=Freeman John Dyson. 15 December 1923 – 28 February 2020 |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |volume=73|pages=197–226 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.2021.0050 |s2cid=249204385 |doi-access=free }}</ref> * Dyson was elected to the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1958.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Freeman John Dyson |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/freeman-john-dyson |access-date=2022-07-20 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |language=en}}</ref> * Dyson was elected to the United States [[National Academy of Sciences]] in 1964.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Freeman J. Dyson |url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/56140.html |access-date=2022-07-20 |website=www.nasonline.org}}</ref> * Dyson was awarded the [[Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics]] in 1965, [[Lorentz Medal]] in 1966, [[Max Planck Medal]] in 1969, the [[J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize]] in 1970,{{sfn|Walter|1982|p=438}}<ref name=1970PhT /> the [[Harvey Prize]] in 1977<ref name=Harvey /> and [[Wolf Prize]] in 1981.<ref name=Wolf /> * Dyson was elected to the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1976.<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Freeman+J.+Dyson&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2022-07-20 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> * In 1986, Dyson received the Golden Plate Award of the [[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]].<ref name=GoldenPlate /><ref>{{cite news |title= Summit Overview Photo| url= https://achievement.org/summit/|quote= Awards Council member, theoretical physicist and futurist Dr. Freeman Dyson presenting the American Academy of Achievement’s Golden Plate Award to Dr. Francis H.C. Crick, recipient of the Nobel Prize as the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, during the 1987 Banquet of the Golden Plate ceremonies in Scottsdale, Arizona.}}</ref> * In 1989, Dyson was elected as an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge.<ref name=HonFell /> * In 1990, Dyson taught at [[Duke University]] as a [[Fritz London]] Memorial Lecturer.<ref name=Fritz /> * Dyson published a number of collections of speculations and observations about technology, science, and the future. In 1996, he was awarded the [[Lewis Thomas Prize|Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science]].<ref name=Rockefeller /> * In 1993, Dyson was given the [[Enrico Fermi Award]].<ref name=Fermi /> * In 1995, he gave the Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures at the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]], sponsored jointly by the Hebrew University and [[Harvard University Press]] that grew into the book ''Imagined Worlds''.{{sfn|Dyson|1998}} * In 2000, Dyson was awarded the [[Templeton Prize]] for Progress in Religion.{{sfn|Connor|2000}} * In 2003, Dyson was awarded the Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology in [[Telluride, Colorado]].<ref name=Telluride /> * In 2011, Dyson received as one of twenty distinguished [[Old Wykehamists]] at the ''Ad Portas'' celebration, the highest honor that [[Winchester College]] bestows.<ref name=AdPortas /> * In 2011, Dyson received the Arthur C. Clarke Lifetime Achievement Award from the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Arthur Clarke Foundation Awardees |url=https://clarkefoundation.org/awards/ |access-date=2023-08-21 |website=The Arthur C Clarke Foundation |language=en}}</ref> * In 2018, Dyson received the first Presidential Science and Humanism Award from the [[American University of Beirut]].<ref name=aub.edu.lb />
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