Michael W. Friedlander

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Education University of Bristol (1955) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada Books At the fringes of science, A Thin Cosmic Rain, Cosmic Rays, Astronomy - from Stonehen, The conduct of science

Michael W. Friedlander (born 1928) is an American physicist and skeptic.

Friedlander is Professor Emeritus of physics at Washington University in St. Louis. His research has involved the study of cosmic rays and gamma ray astronomy.

He is the author of the book At The Fringes Of Science (1998), a scholarly study of fringe science. The book is notable for its criticism of the ideas of Immanuel Velikovsky.

Publications

Astronomy: From Stonehenge to Quasars (Prentice-Hall, 1985)

Cosmic Rays (Harvard University Press, 1989)

At The Fringes Of Science (Westview Press, 1995, 1998)

Thin Cosmic Rain (Harvard University Press, 2000)

References

Michael W. Friedlander Wikipedia

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