Victor J. Stenger

Victor J. Stenger was an American physicist, philosopher, writer, and astronomer born in Bayonne in 1935. He was educated at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the University of California, Los Angeles. His professional career included positions at the University of Colorado and Heidelberg University, with work locations in Boulder. His fields of work encompassed physics, particle physics, quantum mechanics, and cosmology.

Stenger was associated with the atheism movement and worldview. He authored thirteen works, including *God and the multiverse*, *The Comprehensible Cosmos*, *God, Has Science Found God? The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe*, and *The new Atheism*. He died of natural causes due to an aortic aneurysm in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 27, 2014. He spoke English.