# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/heinz-pagels
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:26:52.187Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/heinz-pagels"
name: "Heinz Pagels"
slug: "heinz-pagels"
description: "Heinz Rudolf Pagels 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. 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)."
tagline: "American physicist (1939–1988)"
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birthDate: "1939-02-19"
deathDate: "1988-07-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump