Stephen M. Barr

Stephen M. Barr (born 1953) is a professor of Particle Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, and a member of its Bartol Research Institute. He does research on grand unified theories, the origin of quark and lepton masses, and the cosmology of the early universe. He has authored over 140 physics research papers and the article on Grand Unified Theories for the Encyclopedia of Physics. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the citation reading "for original contributions to grand unified theories, CP violation, and baryogenesis."

He earned his Bachelors degree from Columbia University in 1974, and Ph. D. in physics from Princeton University in 1978. He went on to do research at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Washington, and Brookhaven National Laboratory, before joining the faculty of the University of Delaware in 1987. He was elected the Director of the Bartol Research Institute of the University of Delaware in 2011.

Barr writes and lectures frequently on the relation of science and religion. Since 2000, he has served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the religious intellectual journal First Things, in which many of his articles and book reviews have appeared. His writing has also appeared in National Review, The Weekly Standard, Modern Age, The Public Interest, and Commonweal. In 2007, he was awarded the Benemerenti Medal by Pope Benedict XVI. In 2010, he was elected a member of the Academy of Catholic Theology.

There are other authors with the name Stephen M. Barr who have written books on religious subjects. The physicist Stephen M. Barr is the author only of the following books: "Modern Physics and Ancient Faith"; "A Student's Guide to Natural Science"; and "Science and Religion, The Myth of Conflict".