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]