Eric J. Lerner

Eric J. Lerner is an American popular science writer and the founder, president and chief scientist of Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, Inc. He is the author of the 1991 book The Big Bang Never Happened, which argues for the plasma cosmology developed by Swedish phycisist Hannes Alfvén rather than the traditional Big Bang theory.

Lerner has also participated in civil rights activism, having taken part in the 1965 Selma March, the 1968 Columbia Student Strike and more recently the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protests.