Paul Davies

Paul Charles William Davies AM ( born April 22, 1946 in London ) is a British physicist and nonfiction author who has taught in the UK, Australia and the United States.

Life

Davies made ​​1967 his bachelor's degree at University College London, where he obtained his doctorate in 1970 (via the Wheeler - Feynman version of electrodynamics ). He then spent two years as a post- doctoral fellow at the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy in Cambridge with Fred Hoyle, where he was employed with Astrophysics ( atomic elementary processes in stellar atmospheres, cosmology, quantum theory of black holes ). He was a lecturer at King's College London in 1972. In 1980 he became professor of theoretical physics at the University of Newcastle -upon- Tyne. In 1990 he went to Australia, where he was professor of mathematical physics (from 1993 Professor of Natural Philosophy) at the University of Adelaide. In 1998 he was a visiting professor at Imperial College London and in the same year an Adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland. He was Adjunct Professor at the Australian Centre for Astrobiology at Macquarie University, he co-founded in 2001. In 2006 he became Professor and Director to promote and co-founder of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts of Science from Arizona State University, which has the contract, research, exchange and discussion on fundamental questions of the universe and the origin of life.

Davies occupied himself not only cosmology and quantum field theory (especially quantum field theory in curved space - times ) with astrobiology, SETI, and questions of the origin of life. His research topics of his numerous understandable held books in which he also addresses philosophical and religious issues. In English-speaking countries he is known for his television and radio shows, for example, on the radio program of the BBC and Australian television.

Since 2005, Davies is head of a working group of the International Academy of Astronautics, is to work out the procedures for the case that in the context of the SETI project actually signals of extraterrestrial beings should be captured.

In 1995 he was awarded the highly doped Templeton Prize Templeton Foundation. More prices he received for his popular science books.

He is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum and a member of the Royal Literary Society, Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics, the UK Institute of Physics and the Singapore Institute of Physics and honorary member of the Indian Astronomical Society.

From a 1972 closed first marriage Davies has three daughters and a son. His second wife he married in 2003 a science journalist.

Writings

Scientific Books:

  • The physics of time asymmetry. University of California Press, 1976.
  • With Nicholas D. Birrell: Quantum fields in curved space. Cambridge University Press, 1982.
  • David Betts: Quantum Mechanics. Kluwer, 1994.
  • Publisher: The new physics. Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Popular science books:

  • The cosmic hit. Why we are here and the Universe is created for us. Campus, 2008 ( The Goldilocks enigma - why is the universe just right for life? ).
  • How to build a time machine. Piper, 2005, ISBN 349224422X ( how to build a time machine ).
  • The fifth miracle. In search of the origin of life. Joke, 2001, ISBN 3502151636 (The Fifth Miracle, Penguin 1998).
  • Julian Brown: Ghost of the atom. A discussion of the mysteries of quantum physics. Island, Frankfurt 2001, ISBN 3458331999 ( The Ghost in the atom ).
  • The last three minutes. Bertelsmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3570120058; Goldmann, Munich 1998. ISBN 3442150086 ( The last three minutes).
  • Are we alone in the universe? Special edition. About the probability of extraterrestrial life. 1998, ISBN 3502191441 ( Are we alone? ).
  • The plan of God. The mystery of our existence and science. Island, Frankfurt 1996, ISBN 3458336346 ( The Mind of God, Simon and Schuster, 1993).
  • The immortality of the time. Modern physics between rationality and God. Joke, Munich 1995, ISBN 3502131430 ( About Time Einstein 's unfinished revolution, Simon and Schuster, 1995).
  • John Gribbin: On the way to the world formula. Superstrings, Chaos, Complexity - and then what? Byblos, 1993 ( The Matter Myth ).
  • Julian R. Brown (ed.): superstrings. An all-encompassing theory of nature in the discussion. DTV, Munich 1992, ISBN 3423114975 ( first in 1988, with interviews of Richard Feynman, John Schwarz, Edward Witten, Michael Green, Steven Weinberg, David Gross, John Ellis, Abdus Salam, Sheldon Glashow ).
  • Principle of chaos. Goldmann, Munich 1991, ISBN 3442114691 ( The cosmic blueprint 1987).
  • The elemental force - on the search for a unified theory of nature. DTV, Munich 1990, ISBN 3423112751 ( Super Force 1984).
  • God and modern physics. Bertelsmann, Munich, 1986, ISBN 357004906X ( God and the new physics, Dent 1983).
  • Multiple worlds. Discoveries of quantum physics. Diederichs, Munich 1981, ISBN 3424007145 1988 ( Other Worlds, Simon and Schuster, 1980).
  • At the end of a new beginning. The biography of the universe. Diederichs, Munich 1979, ISBN 3424006629; Ullsteinhaus 1984 ( The runaway universe, 1977).
  • The Forces of Nature. Cambridge University Press, 1979, 2nd edition 1986.
  • The Edge of Infinity. Simon and Schuster, 1981.
  • The Accidental Universe. Cambridge University Press, 1982.
  • The Eerie Silence. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010, ISBN 978-0547133249.

Novels:

  • Fireball. Rasch and Röhring, 1989, 1992, ISBN 389136265X ( Fireball 1987, Thriller ).
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