13 Facts About Elizabeth Rauscher

Elizabeth A Rauscher was an American physicist and parapsychologist.

Elizabeth Rauscher was a former researcher with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Stanford Research Institute, and NASA.

In 1975 Rauscher co-founded the Berkeley Fundamental Fysiks Group, an informal group of physicists who met weekly to discuss quantum mysticism and the philosophy of quantum physics.

Elizabeth Rauscher had an interest in psychic healing and faith healing and other paranormal claims.

Elizabeth Rauscher was born in Berkeley, California on March 18,1937.

In How the Hippies Saved Physics, Kaiser writes that Elizabeth Rauscher had always been interested in science, and as a child had designed and built her own telescopes.

Elizabeth Rauscher enrolled at Berkeley for her first degree, and published her first article, on nuclear fusion, while still an undergraduate.

Elizabeth Rauscher writes that she coped with it by wearing tweedy dresses and keeping her hair short, though she experienced some intimidation.

Elizabeth Rauscher obtained her master's in nuclear physics in 1965.

Elizabeth Rauscher married and had a son, and when she became their sole provider took a job as a staff scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Elizabeth Rauscher continued by working at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and additionally started and chaired the Livermore Philosophy Group, offering classes on the relationship between science and society at Berkeley, and later at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

Elizabeth Rauscher has an interest in psychic healing and faith healing.

Jeffrey John Kripal writes that Elizabeth Rauscher broadened the group to include non-physicists, and in the late 1970s and early 1980s the group's members met annually at the Esalen Institute to continue their exchange of ideas, exerting a major influence on alternative religious thought in the United States.