Victor John Stenger (January 29, 1935 – August 27, 2014) was an American particle physicist, educator, philosopher, writer, and religious skeptic. He worked with New Atheism and he also wrote popular science books. He wrote books about physics, quantum mechanics, cosmology, philosophy, religion, atheism, and pseudoscience. He wrote "The New York Times" bestseller "God: The Failed Hypothesis", published in 2007. His final book was called "God and the Atom: From Democritus to the Higgs Boson", published in 2013. He was also a science columnist for "The Huffington Post". He worked at universities such as the University of Hawaii and the University of Colorado Boulder.