Paul Davies
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Paul Charles William Davies
In 1995, he was awarded the Templeton Prize.[2]
In 2005, he took up the chair of the
Education
Born on 22 April 1946, Davies was brought up in
In 1970, he completed his
Scientific research
Davies' research interests are
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".[7] Reports refuting the most significant aspects of the original results were published in the same journal in 2012.[8] Following the publication of the articles challenging the conclusions of the original Science article first describing GFAJ-1, the website Retraction Watch argued that the original article should be retracted because of misrepresentation of critical data.[9][10]
Davies is an outreach investigator at
Awards
Davies received the Templeton Prize in 1995.[2]
Davies' talent as a communicator of science has been recognized in
Davies was made a member of the Order of Australia in the 2007 Queen's birthday honours list.
The minor planet
Media work
Davies writes and comments on scientific and philosophical issues. He made a documentary series for
A 2007 opinion piece "Taking Science on Faith" in
Davies wrote an article in The Wall Street Journal describing the background to the December 2010 arsenic bacteria press conference and stating that he supported the finding of Felisa Wolfe-Simon that arsenic can replace phosphorus because "I had the advantage of being unencumbered by knowledge. I dropped chemistry at the age of 16, and all I knew about arsenic came from Agatha Christie novels."[16] He also made the statement, "Well, I would be astonished if this was the only arsenic-based organism on Earth and Felisa just happened to scrape it up from the bottom of Mono Lake on the first try, It's quite clear that it is the tip of an iceberg. I think it's a window into a whole new world of microbiology. And as a matter of fact, she already has 20 or so candidate other organisms that we're very anxious to take a look at. I think we're going to see a whole new domain of life here."[17] It was later independently demonstrated that the organism's DNA contained no arsenic at all.[18][19][20][21] Concerns have been raised about his responsibility as one of Wolfe-Simon's co-authors.[22]
In popular culture
- The 1996 novel Naive, Super, by Norwegian writer Erlend Loe(translated by Tor Ketil Solberg), refers to Davies frequently.
- Numbers (season 5, episode 12) refers to Paul Davies' Cosmic Think Tank at Arizona State.
- In Lawrence Leung's Unbelievable (season 1, episode 3), Leung interviews Paul Davies about alien abduction, and Davies discusses having experienced sleep paralysis.
- Through the Wormhole, season 3, episode 1 "Will We Survive First Contact?"
- Through the Wormhole, season 6
- The 2013 novel The Extinction Machine, by American writer Jonathan Maberry, refers to Paul Davies.
Works
Popular science books
- 1974 The Physics of Time Asymmetry, University of California Press, Berkeley, California, ISBN 0-520-03247-0
- 1978 The Runaway Universe, Penguin Books, ISBN 0-460-04286-6
- 1979 Stardoom, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, ISBN 0-00-635318-5
- 1979 The Forces of Nature, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-31392-9
- 1980 Other Worlds, Touchstone/Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0-460-04400-1
- 1980 "The Search for Gravity Waves", Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-23197-3
- 1981 The Edge of Infinity, Penguin USA, ISBN 0-14-023194-3
- 1982 The Accidental Universe, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-28692-1
- 1982 Quantum Fields in Curved Space, (with N.D. Birrell), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-27858-9
- 1983 ISBN 0-14-022550-1
- 1984 Superforce, Touchstone, ISBN 0-04-539006-1
- 1986 The Ghost in the Atom, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-31316-3
- 1987 The Cosmic Blueprint, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0-04-440182-5
- 1988 Superstrings: A Theory of Everything, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-35741-1
- 1989 The New Physics, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-30420-2
- 1991 The Matter Myth, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0-670-83585-4
- 1992 ISBN 0-671-71069-9
- 1994 The Last Three Minutes, Basic Books, ISBN 1-85799-336-5
- 1995 Are We Alone?, Basic Books, ISBN 0-14-025179-0
- 1995 ISBN 0-670-84761-5
- 1998 The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-684-83799-4
- 2002 ISBN 0-14-100534-3
- 2003 The Origin of Life, Penguin Books, ISBN 0-14-101302-8
- 2007 The Goldilocks Enigma, also under the title ISBN 0-14-102326-0
- 2008 ISBN 1-84816-267-7
- 2010 ISBN 1-4001-6551-2
- 2010 Information and the Nature of Reality: From Physics to Metaphysics, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-76225-0
- 2019 The Demon in the Machine, Allen Lane, ISBN 978-0241309599
- 2021 What's Eating The Universe? (And Other Cosmic Questions), Allen Lane, ISBN 978-0-241-45985-0
Technical books
- 1974 The Physics of Time Asymmetry, University of California Press, Berkeley California,
- 1982 (with N. D. Birrell) Quantum Fields in Curved Space, Series: Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics, Cambridge University Press.[23]
- 1984 Quantum Mechanics, (with David S. Betts), 2nd edition, CRC Press, 1994.
Essays and papers
- "Are We Alone in the Universe?" in The New York Times, 18 November 2013.
- "Taking Science on Faith" in The New York Times, 24 November 2007.
- "What Happened Before the Big Bang?" in God for the 21st Century, ISBN 1-890151-39-4
- Davies, P.C.W. (2012). "Footprints of alien technology". Acta Astronautica. 73: 250–257. .
Footnotes
- ^ a b Paul Davies at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b Niebuhr, Gustav (March 9, 1995). "Scientist Wins Religion Prize Of $1 Million."
- ^ Davies, Paul (1970). Contributions to theoretical physics: (i) Radiation damping in the optical continuum; (ii) A quantum theory of Wheeler–Feynham electrodynamics (PhD thesis). University College London.(subscription required)
- ^ Leman, Jennifer (27 April 2022). "This Experiment Could Finally Show Us What Hyperspace Looks Like". Popular Mechanics. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- ^ "Cosmology, next-gen". cosmosmagazine.com. 6 September 2021. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- Independent.co.uk. 19 November 2020. Archivedfrom the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
- PMID 21127214.
- S2CID 20229329.
- ^ David Sanders (9 July 2012). "Despite refutation, Science arsenic life paper deserves retraction, scientist argues". Retraction Watch. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
- ^ Sanders, David (21 January 2021). "Why one biologist says it's not too late to retract the "arsenic life" paper".
- ^ "Center for Convergence of Physical Science and Cancer Biology". Retrieved 10 December 2020.
- ^ a b Davies, Paul (24 November 2007). "Taking Science on Faith". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 October 2010.
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Jerry Coyne; Nathan Myhrvold; Lawrence Krauss; Scott Atran; Sean Carroll; Jeremy Bernstein; PZ Myers; Lee Smolin; John Horgan; Alan Sokal. "On "Taking Science on Faith" by Paul C. Davies". Edge.org. Retrieved 28 September 2010.
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Richard Dawkins (2006). "A Deeply Religious Non-Believer". The God Delusion. ISBN 978-0-618-91824-9.
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Victor J. Stenger. "Review of The Cosmic Blueprint". Science & Theology News. University of Colorado. Archived from the originalon 7 June 2010.
- ^ Davies, Paul (4 December 2010). "The 'Give Me a Job' Microbe". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
- ABC.net.au. 4 December 2010. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
- ^ "Studies refute arsenic bug claim". BBC News. 9 July 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
- S2CID 20229329.
- ^ RRResearch By Rosie Redfield. 16 January 2012
- PMID 22773140.
- ^ Redfield, Rosie (3 February 2012). "Authorship without responsibility?". RRResearch. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
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