Heinz Pagels

Heinz Pagels
Born	February 19, 1939 New York City, New York United States
Died	July 23, 1988 (1988-07-24) (aged 49) Pyramid Peak, Colorado, US
Alma mater	Princeton University Stanford University Woodberry Forest School
Spouse	Elaine Pagels ​ (m. 1969)​
Scientific career
Fields	Physicist
Institutions	Rockefeller University New York Academy of Sciences
Doctoral advisor	Sidney Drell
Doctoral students	Seth 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).