Gerald Lawrence Schroeder is an 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 five years on the staff of the MIT
physics department.
He was a member of the United States Atomic
Energy Commission.
== Aliyah to Israel ==
After emigrating 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.
== Religious views and scientific theories
==
His works frequently cite Talmudic, Midrashic
and medieval commentaries on Biblical creation
accounts, such as commentaries written by
the Jewish philosopher Nachmanides.
Among other things, Schroeder attempts to
reconcile a six-day creation as described
in Genesis with the scientific evidence that
the world is billions of years old using the
idea that the perceived flow of time for a
given event in an expanding universe varies
with the observer's perspective of that event.
He attempts to reconcile the two perspectives
numerically, calculating the effect of the
stretching of space-time, based on Einstein's
general relativity.Namely, that from the perspective
of the point of origin of the Big Bang, according
to Einstein's equations of the 'stretching
factor', time dilates by a factor of roughly
1,000,000,000,000, meaning one trillion days
on earth would appear to pass as one day from
that point, due to the stretching of space.
When applied to the estimated age of the universe
at 13.8 billion years, from the perspective
of the point of origin, the universe today
would appear to have just begun its sixth
day of existence, or if the universe is 15
billion years old from the perspective of
earth, it would appear to have just completed
its sixth day.Antony Flew, an academic philosopher
who promoted atheism for most of his adult
life indicated that the arguments of Gerald
Schroeder had influenced his decision to become
a deist.His theories to reconcile faith and
science have drawn some criticism from both
religious and non-religious scientists, and
his works remain controversial in scientific
circles.
== Personal ==
Schroeder's wife Barbara Sofer is a popular
columnist for the English language Israeli
newspaper Jerusalem Post.
The couple has 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), ISBN 0-553-35413-2
The 
Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific
and Biblical Wisdom, (1997), ISBN 0-7679-0303-X
The Hidden Face of God: Science Reveals the
Ultimate Truth, (2002), ISBN 0-7432-0325-9.
God According to God: A Physicist Proves We've
Been Wrong About God All Along, (2009), ISBN
978-0-06-171015-5
