Victor J. Stenger (born
January 29, 1935,
Bayonne, New Jersey) is an
American particle physicist and
author, now active in
philosophy and
skepticism.
As of September 2009, he has published nine books for general audiences on physics, quantum mechanics, cosmology, philosophy, religion, atheism, and pseudoscience, the latest of which is The New Atheism Taking a Stand for Science and Reason, which was released in September 2009. Stenger announced that work has begun on a tenth book, tenatively titled The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning How the Universe is Not Designed for Humanity.[1]
In 1956, Stenger received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Newark College of Engineering (now the New Jersey Institute of Technology). He then moved to Los Angeles on a Hughes Aircraft Company fellowship. At UCLA, he earned a Master of Science in 1958, and a Ph.D. in 1963, both in physics.[2]
Stenger was a member of the Department of Physics at the University of Hawaii until his 2000 retirement. He has held visiting positions on the faculties of the University of Heidelberg in Germany, Oxford University (twice), and has been a visiting researcher at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory[3] in England, the National Nuclear Physics Laboratory in Frascati, Italy, and the University of Florence in Italy.[4] He is currently an Emeritus Professor of physics at the University of Hawaii, and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado. He is a fellow of CSICOP and a research fellow of the Center for Inquiry.[5]
