Prof Marcelo Gleiser HonFISSR 12 Ferson Road
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH, United States
Biography
Biographical information is not available at present.
Biography
Marcelo Gleiser is the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and a professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College. He obtained his Ph.D. from King's College London and received the 1994 Presidential Faculty Fellows Award from the White House. He is a Fellow and past General Councilor of the American Physical Society. He is the 2019 Templeton Prize Laureate. Also in 2019, he won the Education Leadership Award from Educando by Worldfund Foundation.
His five books in English on the multifaceted connections between science, philosophy, and religion have been published in 15 languages, and include The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and The Search for Meaning, A Tear at the Edge of Creation, and The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected. A leading public intellectual and world-renowned theoretical physicist interested in cosmology and the emergence of complexity in Nature, he has published hundreds of peer-reviewed articles, and more than a thousand essays and op-eds, and frequently participates in TV documentaries and radio shows in the US and abroad. He is the co-founder of the NPR blog on science and culture,13.7, now housed at BigThink.com under the name 13.8. He currently directs the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth College.
Honoraria Titles
Professor of Physics and Ast, Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy
Major Prizes
2019 Templeton Prize
Religion, Philosophy & History Interests
History of Religion, History of Science
Science & Technology Interests
Physics
Website
Publications
The Island of Knowledge: The limits of science and the search for meaning
Basic Books 2015
A Tear at the Edge of Creation
Free Press: Simon & Schuster 2010
The Dancing Universe: From Creation Myths to the Big Bang
Dutton 1997
The Prophet and the Astronomer: Apocalyptic Science and the End of the World
W.W. Norton 2001
The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected: A Natural Philosopher and Search of Trout and the Meaning of Everything
University Press of New England 2016
