James Dyson (physicist)

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James Dyson (1914–1990) was a British physicist who studied optics. He grew up in a family of makers and loved inventing. In 1939 he lived in Rugby, Warwickshire, and worked as an instrument transformer design engineer. He later worked in the Research Laboratory of Associated Electrical Industries and then joined the Optics Division of the National Physical Laboratory. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1968.