Gordon Freeman is the main protagonist of the Half-Life series. Freeman is a theoretical physicist, forced to defend himself and the human race in a conflict against hostile aliens and other enemies after a failed experiment causes a worldwide alien invasion.
In the process, Freeman becomes an almost legendary resistance hero, eventually rising to be one of the key leaders in the war against an inter-dimensional empire. Freeman's letter of acceptance to Black Mesa, written May 5, , as it appears in the instruction manual of the PlayStation 2 version of Half-Life.
A native of Seattle, Washington, [1] Freeman harbors an early interest in theoretical physics, such as quantum mechanics and relativity. He has no dependents [2] and is a graduate of MIT , having earned a Ph. After graduating from MIT, Gordon travels to Austria and observes a series of teleportation experiments conducted by the Institute for Experimental Physics in Innsbruck.
Eventually, he becomes disappointed with the slow pace of teleportation research in academia and begins to search for a job outside the education sector.
Isaac Kleiner has taken charge of a research project at a government-owned, integrated research facility known as the Black Mesa Research Facility and offers Freeman a job. He accepts, hoping that at least part of the immense funding would go towards civilian applications of astrophysics and quantum computing.
