1. Biography

2. Selected works

3. See also

4. References

5. External links

William R. Stoeger SJ ^[1] was an American astronomer and theologian.

Biography

William Stoeger was born on October 5, 1943 at Torrance Memorial Hospital in Torrance, California.^[2] His father was named Richard Q. Stoeger. Stoeger and his brother, John D. were ordained together. William went to high school at Bishop Montgomery High School in Torrance, California and received a bachelor's degree in philosophy at Spring Hill College in Mobile Alabama and a master's in physics at UCLA. Before studying at Cambridge, he studied theology at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley.^[2] He was a staff scientist for the Vatican Observatory Research Group Vatican Observatory^[3] in Tucson, specializing in theoretical cosmology, high-energy astrophysics, and interdisciplinary studies relating to science, philosophy and theology. Fr. Stoeger was ordained a Jesuit priest in 1972, and earned his Ph.D. in astrophysics in 1976 at Cambridge University, where he was a student of the Astronomer Royal, Baron Martin Rees, and a classmate of Stephen Hawking. He worked on staff at the Vatican Observatory in Tucson from 1979 until his death on March 24, 2014.^[4]

Selected works

• [https://books.google.com/books?id=Pgi3IAAACAAJ Physics and Cosmology: Scientific Perspectives on the Problem of Natural Evil] co-edited with Nancey Murphy and Robert John Russell, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2008, {{ISBN|88-209-7959-4}}, 400 pages
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=NU4Qckbeb8oC Evolution and Emergence: Systems, Organisms, Persons], co-edited with Nancey Murphy, Oxford University Press, 2007, {{ISBN|0-19-920471-3}}, 360 pages
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=yMgnAAAAYAAJ&pgis=1 John Paul II on Science and Religion: Reflections on the New View from Rome] co-edited with Robert J. Russell, George V. Coyne, and Pope John Paul II, Vatican Observatory Publications, 1990, {{ISBN|0-268-01209-1}}, 122 pages
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=vcsnAAAAYAAJ&pgis=1 Physics, Philosophy, and Theology: A Common Quest for Understanding] co-edited with Robert J. Russell and G. V. Coyne, Vatican Observatory, 1988, {{ISBN|0-268-01576-7}}, 419 pages
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=KwXqAAAACAAJ The Laws of Nature, the Range of Human Knowledge and Divine Action], William R. Stoeger, Biblos, 1996, {{ISBN|83-85380-94-9}}, 116 pages
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=vc8aHQAACAAJ An Investigation of Crossed-calcite Plate Measures in Cygnus II] co-authored with Patrick J. Treanor, Specola vaticana, 1976, 7 pages

See also

• List of Jesuit scientists
• List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics

References

External links

• Review by Stoeger of the David Toolan's At Home in the Cosmos (Orbis Books, 2003)

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