Marcelo Gleiser

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Marcelo Gleiser

Born	19 March 1959 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Residence	Brazil, USA
Nationality	Brazilian, American
Field	Physics
Institution	Dartmouth College Fermilab Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics NASA OTAN
Alma mater	Pontifícia Univ. Católica do Rio de Janeiro Federal University of Rio de Janeiro King's College
Religion	Catholic

Marcelo Gleiser (born 1959 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian physicist and astronomer. He received his bachelor's degree in 1981 from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, his M.Sc. degree in 1982 from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, and his Ph.D. in 1986 from King's College at the University of London. After this he worked as a postdoc at Fermilab until 1988 and from then until 1991 at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. Since 1991, he 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.

Gleiser's current research interests include the physics of the early Universe and the astrophysics of compact objects. Apart from his research, Dr. Gleiser is also a well-known science writer. He has written two popular books on cosmology and religion, The Prophet and the Astronomer and The Dancing Universe, and writes a science column every Sunday in a supplement of the Folha de São Paulo newspaper. He has been awarded the José Reis Award for Divulgation of Science by the Brazilian National Research Council.

[edit] External links

• Dartmouth College Department of Physics and Astronomy biography and CV
• Marcelo Gleiser's personal page at Dartmouth
• Marcelo Gleiser's Question: Where Does Matter Come From?