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Heinz Rudolf Pagels (February 19, 1939 – July 23, 1988) was an American physicist, an adjunct 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 is best known to the general public for his 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). ==Biography== Pagels obtained his PhD in elementary particle physics from Stanford University under the guidance of Sidney Drell.〔Part of this PhD research was published in the article (S. D. Drell and H. R. Pagels, "Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Electron, Muon, and Nucleon", Phys. Rev. 140, B397 - B407 (1965) ).〕 His technical work included the Physics Reports review articles ''Quantum Chromodynamics'' (with W. Marciano) and ''Departures from Chiral Symmetry''. A number of his published papers dealt with the source of the mass of elementary particles in quantum field theory, especially the Nambu-Goldstone realization of chiral symmetry breaking. He also published (with David Atkatz) a visionary paper entitled ''Origin of the Universe as a quantum tunneling event''〔Phys. Rev. D 25, 2065–2073 (1982)〕 that prefigured later work done in the field. The list of his graduate students includes Dan Caldi, Saul Stokar and Seth Lloyd. Pagels was an outspoken critic of those he believed misrepresented the discoveries and ideas of science to promote mysticism and pseudoscience. In his capacity as executive director of the New York Academy of Science in 1986, Pagels submitted an affidavit in a case involving a former member of the Transcendental Meditation movement who sued the organization for fraud.〔Skolnick, A.A. "Maharishi Ayur-Veda: Guru's marketing scheme promises the world eternal 'perfect health'." Journal of the American Medical Association. 1991 Oct 2;266(13):1741-2, 1744-5, 1749-50〕 Pagels served as president of the International League for Human Rights, working to support freedom for researchers in other countries. He was a fellow of the New York Institute of the Humanities at New York University, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Science and Law Committee of the New York Bar Association and a trustee of the New York Hall of Science. In 1969, Pagels married Elaine Pagels, later theology professor, author, and MacArthur Fellow.〔Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World - Page 1062 Mary Zeiss Stange, Carol K. Oyster, Jane E. Sloan - 2011 In 1969, she married Heinz R. Pagels, a noted theoretical physicist, and subsequently gave birth to two children.〕 Their son Mark died in 1987 after a four-year illness. The couple had a daughter Sarah and an adopted son David. Heinz Pagels died in 1988 in a mountain climbing accident on Pyramid Peak, a 14,000-foot summit 10 miles to the southwest of the Aspen Center for Physics, where he spent his summers. Eerily, the accident is disturbingly similar to the imagined fatal fall he described at the end of his first book, where he wrote: Pagels' work in chaos theory provided the inspiration for the character of Ian Malcolm in Michael Crichton's novel ''Jurassic Park''.〔Crichton, Michael, "Jurassic Park" (1990). NY: Ballantine Books. Page unnumbered, information listed in ''Acknowledgments''.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Heinz Pagels」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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