John
Freely - Keynote
Speaker
Autobiographical
Sketch John Freely
was born in 1926 in Brooklyn, New York to Irish immigrant parents, and spent half
of his early childhood in Ireland. He dropped out of high school when he was seventeen
to join the U. S. Navy, serving for two years, including combat duty with a commando
unit in the Pacific, India, Burma and China during the last year of World War
II. After the war he went to college on the G. I. Bill and eventually received
a Ph.D. in physics from New York University, followed by a year of post-doctoral
study at Oxford in the history of science. He worked as a research physicist for
nine years, including five years at Princeton University. In 1960 he went to İstanbul
to teach physics at the old Robert
College, now the Boğaziçi University, and taught there until 1976. He
then went on to teach and write in Athens (1976-79), Boston (1979-87), London
(1987-88), İstanbul (1988-91) and Venice (1991-93). In 1993 he returned to Boğaziçi
University, where he teaches a course in the history of science.
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