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Victor J. Stenger

1935 - 2014

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Victor John Stenger (; January 29, 1935 – August 25, 2014) was an American particle physicist, philosopher, author, and religious skeptic. Following a career as a research scientist in the field of particle physics, Stenger was associated with New Atheism and he authored popular science books. He published twelve books for general audiences on physics, quantum mechanics, cosmology, philosophy, religion, atheism, and pseudoscience, including the 2007 best-seller God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist. His final book was God and the Multiverse: Humanity's Expanding View of the Cosmos (2014). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Victor J. Stenger is the 610th most popular physicist (up from 638th in 2019), the 6,407th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,389th in 2019) and the 129th most popular American Physicist.

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Among physicists, Victor J. Stenger ranks 610 out of 851. Before her are Pierre Weiss, Robert Mills, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, James David Forbes, Bryce DeWitt, and Albert Betz. After her are Prosper-René Blondlot, Aleksandr Stoletov, Alfred Landé, Udupi Ramachandra Rao, Leopoldo Nobili, and Walter Kaufmann.

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Among people born in 1935, Victor J. Stenger ranks 298. Before her are Grant Green, Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, Veli Lehtelä, Anne Treisman, Brian G. Hutton, and Johnny Pacheco. After her are Heinz Schneiter, Jiří Čadek, Mario Bellini, Géza Alföldy, Milkha Singh, and Vladimir Levenshtein. Among people deceased in 2014, Victor J. Stenger ranks 283. Before her are Mel Patton, Samih al-Qasim, Louise Brough, Alice Coachman, Brian G. Hutton, and Frans van der Lugt. After her are China Zorrilla, Ruby Dee, Cornell Borchers, Gyula Török, Sarah Marshall, and Ichirō Nagai.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Victor J. Stenger ranks 6,408 out of 20,380. Before her are Margaret Woodbridge (1902), Brett Cullen (1956), Mary Anderson (1859), Tranquilo Cappozzo (1918), Francis Collins (1950), and Camille Paglia (1947). After her are Scott Columbus (1956), Squanto (1585), Robert Berdella (1949), Jack Oakie (1903), Helene Madison (1913), and Tony Joe White (1943).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Victor J. Stenger ranks 129. Before her are John Henry Schwarz (1941), Frank J. Tipler (1947), Evelyn Fox Keller (1936), Henry Augustus Rowland (1848), Robert Mills (1927), and Bryce DeWitt (1923). After her are Charles Kittel (1916), Robert R. Wilson (1914), James Hansen (1941), Gordon Gould (1920), Lee Smolin (1955), and Harold Brown (1927).

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