Marcelo Gleiser

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Marcelo Gleiser
PhD)
AwardsTempleton Prize (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Institutions

Marcelo Gleiser (born 19 March 1959) is a Brazilian physicist and astronomer. He is a professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College.

Education

Gleiser received his bachelor's degree in 1981 from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, his M.Sc. degree in 1982 from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and his Ph.D. in 1986 from King's College London. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Fermilab until 1988, and thereafter until 1991 at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics.

Academic career

Since 1991 Gleiser has taught at Dartmouth College, where he was awarded the Appleton Professorship of Natural Philosophy in 1999, and is currently a professor of physics and astronomy.

Gleisder is the co-discoverer of "oscillons," time-dependent long-lived field configurations which are present in many physical systems from cosmology to vibrating grains.[1] In 2012, he pioneered the use of concepts from information theory as a measure of complexity in nature.[2]

Gleiser writes a weekly science column for the Brazilian

National Public Radio from 2011 to 2018, a science blog now hosted by BigThink under the new name 13.8: Science, Culture, and Meaning. In 2015 he founded the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth, dedicated to foster a constructive dialogue between the sciences and the humanities. On 19 March 2019 he received the Templeton Prize for his works exploring the complex relationship between science, philosophy, and religion as complementary pathways for humankind's search for meaning.[4]

In September 2023, astrophysicists, including Gleiser, questioned the overall current view of the

Bibliography (English)

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References

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  3. ^ 13.7
  4. ^ "Marcelo Gleiser - Laureates". Templeton Prize. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
  5. ^ Frank, Adam; Gleiser, Marcelo (2 September 2023). "The Story of Our Universe May Be Starting to Unravel". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2 September 2023. Retrieved 3 September 2023.

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