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. In October 1939 he was living in Rugby, Warwickshire, and was an instrument transformer design engineer.National Registration Act 1939, 30 Regent Place, Rugby, ancestry.co.uk, accessed 1 October 2021 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. References