Heinz pagels biography
Heinz Rudolf Pagels (February 19, – July 23, ) was an American physicist, 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.!
Heinz Rudolf Pagels (February 19, – July 23, ) was an United States physicist, [1] an adjunct professor of physics at Rockefeller University.
Heinz Pagels
American physicist (1939–1988)
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).
Early life
Pagels was a 1956 graduate of Woodberry Forest School in Virginia.
The school awards The Heinz R. Pagels Jr. Physics Memorial Award each year to a graduating student who has demonstrated outstanding achievement in physics.
Career
Pagels obtained his PhD in elementary particle physics from Stanford University under the guidance of Sidney Drell.[2] His technical work included the Physics Reports review articles Quantum Chromod