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Daniel Freedman received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1960 and both his M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Wisconsin in 1962 and 1964, respectively, under the supervision of Raymond Sawyer. He held postdoctoral appointments at Imperial College, the University of California, Berkeley, and Princeton before joining the faculty at the Institute of Theoretical Physics at SUNY Stony Brook. In 1980, he joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the Department of Applied Mathematics, while also being jointly appointed to the theoretical physics faculty. Professor Freedman's research centers on quantum field theory, quantum gravity, and string theory, with an emphasis on the role of supersymmetry. Over the years, his focus has shifted towards the computation of properties of on-shell amplitudes in supersymmetric theories. He has been recognized as a Sloan Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow, and in 1993, he received the Dirac Medal Prize. In 2006, he was awarded the Dannie Heineman Prize alongside Sergio Ferrara and Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen for their work in constructing supergravity, a supersymmetric extension of Einstein's theory of general relativity. He was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Physical Society in 1986, and in 2021, he was elected as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.