Gerald Schroeder

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title: "Gerald Schroeder" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["american-orthodox-jews", "jewish-american-physicists", "21st-century-american-physicists", "israeli-physicists", "american-nuclear-physicists", "israeli-nuclear-physicists", "judaism-and-science", "aish-hatorah", "american-emigrants-to-israel", "living-people", "israeli-orthodox-jews", "jewish-creationists", "old-earth-creationism", "writers-about-religion-and-science", "massachusetts-institute-of-technology-school-of-science-alumni", "1938-births"] description: "American-Israeli Jewish physicist" topic_path: "geography/united-states" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Schroeder" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary American-Israeli Jewish physicist ::

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name	Gerald L. Schroeder
image	Portrait of Gerald Schroeder.jpg
caption	Portrait by Michael Netzer
native_name	ג'רלד לורנס שרדר
native_name_lang	he
birth_date
birth_place	New York City, U.S.
alma_mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
website	http://geraldschroeder.com/
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| name = Gerald L. Schroeder | image = Portrait of Gerald Schroeder.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Portrait by Michael Netzer | native_name = ג'רלד לורנס שרדר | native_name_lang = he | birth_date = | birth_place = New York City, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | citizenship = | nationality = | alma_mater = Massachusetts Institute of Technology | known_for = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | footnotes = | website = http://geraldschroeder.com/ Gerald Lawrence Schroeder (; born 20 February 1938) is an American-Israeli Orthodox Jewish physicist, author, lecturer, and teacher at College of Jewish Studies Aish HaTorah's Discovery Seminar, Essentials and Fellowships programs and Executive Learning Center, who focuses on what he perceives to be an inherent relationship between science and spirituality.

Education

Schroeder received his BSc in 1959, his MSc in 1961, and his PhD in nuclear physics and earth and planetary sciences in 1965, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He worked seven years on the staff of the MIT physics department. He was a member of the United States Atomic Energy Commission.{{cite web |url=http://www.sullivan-county.com/x/science.htm |title=Where the Bible meets the Big Bang |last=Sacks |first=Brian |date=2 October 2007 |access-date=18 December 2010 |publisher=sullivan-county.com}}

Aliyah to Israel

After immigrating to Israel in 1971, Schroeder was employed as a researcher at the Weizmann Institute of Science, the Volcani Research Institute, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He currently teaches at Aish HaTorah College of Jewish Studies.

Religion and science

Schroeder's works frequently cite Talmudic, Midrashic and medieval commentaries on the biblical creation account, such as commentaries written by the Jewish philosopher Nachmanides while also referencing scientific discoveries. Antony Flew, an academic philosopher who promoted atheism for most of his adult life, indicated that the arguments of Gerald Schroeder had influenced his late-in-life decision to become a deist.

Schroeder's ideas to reconcile faith and science have drawn some criticism from both Christians and non-religious scientists. Natan Slifkin argues that Schroeder's calculations do not fit the order of creation as presented in Genesis vs. the order of organism development as dictated by our current understanding of evolutionary biology.

Personal

Schroeder's wife Barbara Sofer is a columnist for the English-language Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post. The couple have five children.

Prizes

In 2012, Schroeder was awarded the Trotter Prize by Texas A&M University's College of Science.

Works

• Genesis and the Big Bang (1990),
• The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom, (1997),
• The Hidden Face of God: Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth, (2002), .
• God According to God: A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along, (2009), .

References

References

1. "Executive Learning Center Faculty".
2. Lowe, Chelsea. (Sep–Oct 2006). "Nuclear Scientist Sees No God–Science Conflict". Technology Review.
3. Schroeder, Gerald. (Fall 2006). "Finding the Intelligence Within the Design". Jewish Action.
4. "Gerald Schroeder '59".
5. "About Dr. Gerald Schroeder". geraldschroeder.com.
6. (14 April 2010). "Antony Flew dies at 87; atheist philosopher who changed his mind late in life". [[Los Angeles Times]].
7. Oppenheimer, Mark. (4 November 2007). "The Turning of an Atheist". [[The New York Times]].
8. [https://answersingenesis.org/creationism/old-earth/gerald-schroeders-new-variation-on-the-day-age-theory-1/ "Gerald Schroeder and his New Variation on the 'Day-Age' Theory"], 1 August 2000
9. Perakh, Mark. [http://www.talkreason.org/articles/schroeder.cfm "Not a Very Big Bang About Genesis"], December 2001.
10. ''The Challenge of Creation: Judaism's Encounter with Science, Cosmology and Evolution'' (Zoo Torah/Yashar Books 2006) ISBN 1-933143-15-0
11. "Barbara Sofer".
12. [http://www.science.tamu.edu/trotter/ Trotter Prize & Endowed Lecture Series]

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