Heinz Pagels

Heinz Pagels
BornFebruary 19, 1939
New York City, New York United States
DiedJuly 23, 1988 (1988-07-24) (aged 49)
Alma materPrinceton University
Stanford University
Woodberry Forest School
Spouse
(m. 1969)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysicist
InstitutionsRockefeller University
New York Academy of Sciences
Doctoral advisorSidney Drell
Doctoral studentsSeth Lloyd

Heinz Rudolf Pagels (February 19, 1939 – July 23, 1988) was an American physicist,[1] an associate professor of physics at Rockefeller University, the executive director and chief executive officer of the New York Academy of Sciences, and president of the International League for Human Rights. He wrote the popular science books The Cosmic Code (1982), Perfect Symmetry (1985), and The Dreams of Reason: The Computer and the Rise of the Sciences of Complexity (1988).

  1. ^ Bernstein, Jeremy; Feinberg, Gerald (May 1989). "Heinz R. Pagels". Physics Today. 42 (5): 98–100. Bibcode:1989PhT....42e..98B. doi:10.1063/1.2811032.