Stenger, Victor J. 1935-

PERSONAL:

Born January 29, 1935, in Bayonne, NJ; son of Victor and Mary Stenger; married Phyllis M. Black, October 6, 1962; children: Noelle Stenger Green, Victor Andrew. Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education:Newark College of Engineering, B.S., 1956;University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D., 1963.Politics: Independent. Religion: "None."

ADDRESSES:

Agent—c/o Author Mail, Prometheus Books, 59 John Glenn Dr., Amherst, NY 14228-2197.E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Writer. Hughes Aircraft Co., Culver City, CA, member of technical staff, 1956-58; University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, professor of physics and astronomy, 1963-2000; University of Colorado, Boulder, adjunct professor of philosophy, 2000—; University of Hawaii, professor emeritus of physics and astronomy, 2000—. Visiting professor at University of Heidelberg, 1969-70, Oxford University, 1977-78, 1993, Instituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare, Rome, 1987.

WRITINGS:

Not by Design: The Origin of the Universe,Prometheus Books (Amherst, NY), 1988.

Physics and Psychics: The Search for a World beyond the Senses, Prometheus Books (Amherst, NY), 1990.

The Unconscious Quantum: Metaphysics in Modern Physics and Cosmology, Prometheus Books (Amherst, NY), 1995.

Timeless Reality: Symmetry, Simplicity, and Multiple Universes, Prometheus Books (Amherst, NY), 2000.

Has Science Found God? The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe, Prometheus Books (Amherst, NY), 2003.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Two books to be published,The Comprehensible Cosmos: Where Do the Laws of Physics Come From? and God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Astronomy, January, 2002, Jennifer Birriel, review ofTimeless Reality: Symmetry, Simplicity, and Multiple Universes, p. 96.

Booklist, December 1, 1995, Gilbert Taylor, review ofThe Unconscious Quantum: Metaphysics in Modern Physics and Cosmology, p. 600.

Free Inquiry, spring, 1996, H. James Birx, review ofThe Unconscious Quantum, p. 59; April-May, 2004, William Harwood, review of Has Science Found God? The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe, p. 53.

Journal of Church and State, winter, 2005, William Lane Craig, review of Has Science Found God?,p. 156.

Skeptical Inquirer, March, 2001, Kendrick Frazier, review of Timeless Reality, p. 54; July-August, 2003, Kendrick Frazier and Benjamin Radford, review of Has Science Found God?, p. 53.