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Books By J.E. (Dept of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, UK) Dyson, D.A. (Dept of Physics and Astronomy, University Williams - Author

John Dyson made outstanding research contributions over many years to our understanding of the responses of interstellar media to winds from stars and from active galaxies. He had a huge influence on these subjects and his work gained an international reputation. Much of his career was at the University of Manchester where he became Professor of Astronomy and Head of Astrophysics. He moved in 1996 to the University of Leeds, becoming Dean of Research, and was appointed Emeritus Research Professor in 2006. He died in 2010 and is much missed by friends and colleagues world-wide who valued his scientific insight, quick wit, kindness and generosity. David Williams is currently Emeritus Perren Professor of Astronomy at University College London. While at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in the 1960s he became interested in interstellar molecules and interstellar dust as potential probes of the interstellar medium. When John Dyson and David were both working in Manchester, John emphasised the importa