William R. Stoeger

Who is William R. Stoeger?

William R. Stoeger was an astronomer and theologian. He was born on October 5, 1943 in Torrance. He was a staff scientist for the Vatican Observatory Research Group Vatican Observatory 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.