What is Victor J. Stenger?
[[File:VicHead2011.jpg|thumb|Stenger in September 2011.]] '''Victor John Stenger''' (January 29, 1935 &ndash; August 27, 2014) was an [[Americans|American]] [[particle]] [[physicist]], [[educator]], [[philosopher]], [[writer]], and [[Religion|religious]] [[Skepticism|skeptic]]. He worked with [[New Atheism]], and he also wrote [[popular science]] books. He wrote books about [[physics]], [[quantum mechanics]], [[cosmology]], [[philosophy]], [[religion]], [[atheism]], and [[pseudoscience]]. He wrote ''[[The New York Times]]'' bestseller ''God: The Failed Hypothesis'', published in 2007. His final book was called ''God and the Atom: From Democritus to the Higgs Boson'', published in 2013. He was also a [[science]] [[columnist]] for ''[[The Huffington Post]]''. He worked at [[University|universities]] such as the [[University of Hawaii]] and the [[University of Colorado Boulder]]. Stenger was born in [[Bayonne, New Jersey|Bayonne]], [[New Jersey]]. His father was an immigrant from [[Lithuania]]. His mother's parents were immigrants from [[Hungary]]. He married Phylliss in 1962. They had two children. Stenger died from an [[aortic aneurysm]] on August 27, 2014 in [[Honolulu]], [[Hawaii]]. He was 79.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/08/29/victor-stenger-physicist-and-prolific-atheist-author-is-dead-at-79/|title=Victor Stenger, Physicist and Prolific Atheist Author, is Dead at 79|work=Patheos|date=August 29, 2014|accessdate=30 August 2014}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category}} * [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/victor-stenger/ Victor J. Stenger] at ''[[The Huffington Post]]'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Stenger, Victor J.}} [[Category:1935 births]] [[Category:2014 deaths]] [[Category:American activists]] [[Category:American atheists]] [[Category:Educators from New Jersey]] [[Category:American philosophers]] [[Category:American physicists]] [[Category:Academics from Colorado]] [[Category:American science writers]] [[Category:Scientists from New Jersey]] [[Cate