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British physicist (1946-)

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Paul Charles William Davies 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.

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Paul Davies
said · Sep 7, 2019
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The thing that separates life from non-life is information.

6th International FQXi Conference, "Mind Matters: Intelligence and Agency in the Physical World." A source.

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Paul Davies
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Seventy-five years ago Erwin Schrödinger published... ... the key point... was whether life can be explained by physics.

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Paul Davies
said · Sep 7, 2019
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[W]e... need some new physics. ...The attempt to square the circle by starting out with known physics at the atomic level and somehow life emerging at some higher level... I...

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2011Klumpke-Roberts Award
2007Member of the Order of Australia
2002Michael Faraday Prize
2001Kelvin Prize
1999Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
1995Templeton Prize

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Paul Charles William Davies 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.

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Born 1946 · age 80
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