Victor Stenger (US)
Ph.D., Physics and author. Fellow of CSICOP and of the Center for Inquiry.
Victor Stenger’s research career (1963-2000) spanned the period of great progress in elementary particle physics that ultimately led to the current standard model. He participated in experiments, which helped establish the properties of strange particles, quarks, gluons, and neutrinos. He 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 underground experiment in Japan, that showed for the first time that the neutrino has mass. The project leader received the Nobel Prize in 2002 for this work.
Victor Stenger’s research career (1963-2000) spanned the period of great progress in elementary particle physics that ultimately led to the current standard model. He participated in experiments, which helped establish the properties of strange particles, quarks, gluons, and neutrinos. He 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 underground experiment in Japan, that showed for the first time that the neutrino has mass. The project leader received the Nobel Prize in 2002 for this work.
As of September 2009, Stenger 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”.
