D. Russell Humphreys, Ph.D.

Creationist physicist, guest lecturer (USA)

Biography

Dr Humphreys is an Associate Professor of Physics at the Institute for Creation Research (ICR). He was awarded his Ph.D. in physics from Louisiana State University in 1972, by which time he was a fully convinced creationist. For the next 6 years he worked in the High Voltage Laboratory of General Electric Company, designing and inventing equipment and researching high-voltage phenomena. While there, he received a U.S. patent and one of Industrial Research Magazine’s IR-100 awards.

Beginning in 1979 he worked for Sandia National Laboratories (New Mexico) in nuclear physics, geophysics, pulsed-power research, and theoretical atomic and nuclear physics. In 1985, he began working with Sandia’s ‘Particle Beam Fusion Project’, and was co-inventor of special laser-triggered ‘Rimfire’ high-voltage switches, now coming into wider use.

The last few years at Sandia had seen greater emphasis on theoretical nuclear physics and radiation hydrodynamics in an effort to help produce the world’s first lab-scale thermonuclear fusion. Besides gaining another U.S. patent, Dr Humphreys has been given two awards from Sandia, including an Award for Excellence for contributions to light ion-fusion target theory.

Dr Humphreys retired from Sandia in 2001. Since then he has worked full-time for ICR, mainly from his home office in Albuquerque, NM, USA. He still continues to write for Journal of Creation (formerly TJ) and assists several other creationist organisations in assisting with questions and information concerning physics, astronomy and cosmology.

Education

• B.S., Duke University, Durham, NC, 1963
• Ph.D., Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1972

Honors/Awards/Associations

• Creation Science Fellowship of New Mexico, President
• Industrial Research Magazine’s IR-100 award
• Award for Excellence for contributions to light ion-fusion target theory
• Adjunct professor of the Institute for Creation Research in San Diego
• board member of the Creation Research Society

Publications

Dr Humphreys has published some 20 papers in secular scientific journals, as well as many creationist technical papers. He is also the author of Starlight and Time, in which he proposes a model that the universe may only be thousands of years old even though light from distant stars appears to have taken billions of years to reach Earth (available also as a DVD). He is also author of Evidence for a Young World (available as a booklet).

He has also authored works for the Journal of Creation, including:

• Creationist cosmologies explain the anomalous acceleration of Pioneer spacecraft
• Search continues for a non-creationist solution to the ‘Pioneer anomaly’

Interview

• Creation In The Physics Lab … An Interview With Physicist Dr Russell Humphreys

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