PHYSICIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Victor J. Stenger has received more than 195,383 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Victor J. Stenger is the 637th most popular physicist (down from 575th in 2019), the 6,390th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,536th in 2019) and the 135th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Victor J. Stenger ranks 637 out of 851. Before her are Barys Kit, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, Francis Hauksbee, Gerard K. O'Neill, Alfred Landé, and Tullio Regge. After her are Harriet Brooks, Gerald Guralnik, Isaak Khalatnikov, Charles Stark Draper, Ralph Kronig, and Ferdinand Monoyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Victor J. Stenger ranks 331. Before her are Fred Bongusto, Sadiq al-Mahdi, Ben Vautier, José María Gil-Robles, Ivan Dimitrov, and Peter Grant. After her are Albín Brunovský, Hanna Krall, Maria Vicol, Víctor Benítez, Susan Brownmiller, and Cheo Feliciano. Among people deceased in 2014, Victor J. Stenger ranks 292. Before her are Mohammed Fahim, Ara Shiraz, Tullio Regge, Étienne Mourrut, Bobby Womack, and Joseph Sargent. After her are Cornell Borchers, Gerald Guralnik, Alakbar Mammadov, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Takako Doi, and Mithat Bayrak.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Victor J. Stenger ranks 6,390 out of 20,380. Before her are Bernadette Peters (1948), Joseph Sweeney (1884), Jerrie Cobb (1931), Theodore Robinson (1852), Patricia Bath (1942), and Shafi Goldwasser (1958). After her are Peter Facinelli (1973), Henry Carr (1941), Maurice Costello (1877), John Ratzenberger (1947), Shel Silverstein (1930), and Tom Wopat (1951).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Victor J. Stenger ranks 135. Before her are Brian Greene (1963), Lawrence M. Krauss (1954), Norris Bradbury (1909), Leo Kadanoff (1937), Charles Kittel (1916), and Gerard K. O'Neill (1927). After her are Gerald Guralnik (1936), Charles Stark Draper (1901), William Higinbotham (1910), Lee Smolin (1955), Charles H. Bennett (1943), and Ash Carter (1954).

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