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Victor J. Stenger (born
January 291935) is emeritus professor of
physics and
astronomy at the
University of Hawaii and adjunct professor of
philosophy at the
University of Colorado.
Stenger used to work in particle physics but is principally known as a critic and
skeptic of
Intelligent Design and other ideas alleged to be
pseudoscientific. He has published a number of books intended for general audiences on the subjects of physics and cosmology and philosophy, religion, and pseudoscience (
Has Science Found God?,
The Comprehensible Cosmos,
Timeless Reality,
The Unconscious Quantum,
Physics and Psychics,
Not By Design, and .). The last title was number 21 on the New York Times bestseller list on March 11, 2007.
Stenger maintains that a scientific explanation for phenomena like consciousness and free will, assuming it exists, will some day be found without the need to invoke anything mystical or supernatural.
Work and career
Stenger's early life was in
Bayonne, New Jersey. In 1956, he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Newark College of Engineering (now
New Jersey Institute of Technology).
University career
Stenger moved to Los Angeles on a
Hughes Aircraft Company fellowship, and in 1959 received a Master of Science degree in physics from UCLA. He completed his PhD in Physics in 1963. He then took a position on the faculty of the University of Hawaii, retiring to Colorado in 2000. His current position is emeritus professor of physics at the University of Hawaii and adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado. Stenger is a fellow of
CSICOP and a research fellow of the Center for Inquiry. Stenger has also held visiting positions on the faculties of the University of Heidelberg in Germany, Oxford in England (twice), and has been a visiting researcher at Rutherford Laboratory in England, the
National Nuclear Physics Laboratory in
Frascati, Italy, and the
University of Florence in Italy.
Research career
Stenger's research career has spanned the period of great progress in elementary particle physics that has ultimately led to the current
standard model. He participated in experiments that helped establish the properties of
strange particles,
quarks,
gluons, and
neutrinos, and also helped pioneer the emerging fields of very high-energy
gamma ray and
neutrino astronomy. In his last project before retiring, Stenger collaborated on the
Super-Kamiokande underground experiment in Japan that showed for the first time that the neutrino has mass.
Author
Victor Stenger's publications are principally popular-level books and articles that interface between physics and cosmology and philosophy, religion, and pseudoscience. These include:
Not By Design: The Origin of the Universe (1988);
Physics and Psychics: The Search for a World Beyond the Senses (1990);
The Unconscious Quantum: Metaphysics in Modern Physics and Cosmology (1995);
Timeless Reality: Symmetry, Simplicity, and Multiple Universes (2000);
Has Science Found God? The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe (2003); and
The Comprehensible Cosmos: Where Do the Laws of Physics Come from?. His most recent book,
God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist, was published in 2007 and was number 21 on the New York Times bestseller list on March 11, 2007.
Degrees
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, Newark College of Engineering (now New Jersey Institute of Technology), 1956.
- M.S., Physics, UCLA, 1958.
- Ph. D., Physics, UCLA, 1963. Thesis: Low Energy K+d Scattering and the I = 0 KN Interaction (Harold K. Ticho, advisor)
Professional and community positions
President, Humanists Hawaii 1990-1994
Member of American Physical Society
Member of Editorial Board, Free Inquiry
Member of Society of Humanist Philosophers
Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
Fellow of the Center for Inquiry
President, Colorado Citizens for Science 2002-2006Further Information
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