Tipler, Frank J(ennings), (III)

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TIPLER, Frank J(ennings), (III)

TIPLER, Frank J(ennings), (III). American, b. 1947. Genres: Physics. Career: University of California, Berkeley, research mathematician, 1976- 79; Oxford University, Oxford, England, research fellow, 1979; University of Texas, Austin, research associate, 1979-81; Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, professor of mathematics, 1981-; writer. Visiting fellow at University of Sussex, 1985. Publications: (ed.) Essays in General Relativity: A Festschrift for Abraham H. Taub, 1980; (with J.D. Barrow and M.-O. Monchicourt) L'Homme et le cosmos: Le Principe anthropique en astrophysique moderne (title means: Man and the Cosmos: The Anthropic Principle in Modern Astrophysics), 1984; (with J.D. Barrow) The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, 1986; The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God, and the Resurrection of the Dead, 1994. Address: Departments of Mathematics and Physics, Tulane University, 312 Gibson Hall, 6823 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans, LA 70118, U.S.A.