About
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 of the American Physical Society. He is the 2019 Templeton Prize Laureate, an honor he shares with Mother Tereza, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, and scientists Freeman Dyson and Martin Rees.
His books have been published in 18 languages and include The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and The Search for Meaning, A Tear at the Edge of Creation, The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected, and The Dawn of a Mindful Universe: A Manifesto for Humanity’s Future. A world-renowned theoretical physicist interested in cosmology, statistical physics, and astrobiology, 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 U.S. and abroad. He writes weekly for BigThink’s 13.8.
