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Paul Davies
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British physicist (1946-)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 22 Apr 1946
- Died
- ).
- Works
- 185
Top works
- Shalosh ha-daḳot ha-aḥaronot
- The Matter Myth
- The eerie silence
- Quantum aspects of life
- Superforce
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Film & TV
Acting · London, England
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Paul Charles William Davies AM (born 22 April 1946) is an English physicist, writer and broadcaster, a professor at Arizona State University as well as the Director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science. He is affiliated with the Institute for Quantum Studies at Chapman University in California. He has held previous academic appointments at…
Known for
- Alien Encounters — Self - Director, Beyond Center, Arizona State University2012
- The Privileged Planet — Self2004
- Dylan on Dylan — Passer-by2002
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1946
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2,345
- Total plays
- 9,336
Tags
1) Born in 1953, Paul Davies is a British (jazz) guitarist and composer who has lived in France since the 1970s 2) I'm a London-based songwriter with a lot on my mind. Listen to my albums and you'll encounter love, hate, despair, romance, humour, suspense, murder and intrigue - all wrapped up in a sound caught somewhere between The La's and Dylan plugging himself in, while Nick Cave and Serge Gainsbourg watch on. Steve Lamacq described me as having "a wry take on life" which nicely sums up my
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations
· 1958 · cited 70,821x
- “Mini-mental state”
· 1975 · cited 68,290x
- Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 46,824x
- Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks
· 2003 · cited 45,756x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,538x
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Authority record · VIAF
- Lifespan
- b. 1946
- Nationality
- GB, AU, US, XX, IT
- Role / Field
- Physicists, College teachers, Authors, Vysokoskolsti ucitele, Spisovatele, Science
- Language
- eng, eng.
- Gender
- Male
Recorded by 32 libraries
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Quotes
- “Science, it is usually believed, helps us to build a picture of objective reality – the world 'out there'. With the advent of the quantum theory, that very reality appears to have crumbled, to be replaced by something so revolutionary and bizarre that its consequences have not yet been properly faced.”
- “The brain is the medium of expression of the human mind. Similarly the entire physical universe would be the medium of expression of the mind of a natural God.”
- “That the universe has organized its own self-awareness – is for me powerful evidence that there is 'something going on' behind it all. The impression of design is overwhelming. Science may explain all the processes whereby the universe evolves its own destiny, but that still leaves room for there to be a meaning behind existence.”
- “Matter as such has been demoted from its central role, to be replaced by concepts such as organization, complexity and information.”
- “The scientific quest is a journey into the unknown.”
- “What is remarkable is that human beings are actually able to carry out this code-breaking operation, that the human mind has the necessary intellectual equipment for us to "unlock the secrets of nature"...”
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Key facts
- Born
- Paul Charles William Davies , ( 1946-04-22 ) 22 April 1946 (age 80) , London , United Kingdom
- Alma mater
- University College London
- Known for
- Fulling–Davies–Unruh effect , Bunch–Davies vacuum state , Davies-Fulling "moving mirror" model
- Awards
- Templeton Prize (1995) Kelvin Medal (2001) Faraday Prize (2002) Klumpke-Roberts Award (2011)
- Fields
- Physics
- Institutions
- Arizona State University University College London University of Cambridge King's College London University of Adelaide Macquarie University Newcastle University
- Thesis
- Contributions to Theoretical Physics: (i) Radiation Damping in the Optical Continuum; (ii) A Quantum Theory of Wheeler–Feynman Electrodynamics (1970)
- Doctoral advisors
- M. J. Seaton Sigurd Zienau
- Other academic advisors
- Fred Hoyle ( postdoctoral advisor)
- Notable students
- Sara Imari Walker , Edmund Copeland
- Website
- cosmos .asu .edu
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Encyclopedic overview
Paul Charles William Davies AM (born 22 April 1946) is an English physicist, writer and broadcaster, a professor in Arizona State University and director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science. He is affiliated with the Institute for Quantum Studies in Chapman University in California. He previously held academic appointments in the University of Cambridge, University College London, King's College London, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, University of Adelaide and Macquarie University. His research interests are in the fields of cosmology, quantum field theory, and astrobiology.
In 2005, he took up the chair of the SETI: Post-Detection Science and Technology Taskgroup of the International Academy of Astronautics. Davies serves on the Advisory Council of METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence). Davies was a co-author with Felisa Wolfe-Simon on the 2011 Science article "A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus". The article has been retracted.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Paul Davies” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.