Brian Thomas Swimme is a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, in San Francisco, where he teaches evolutionary cosmology to graduate students in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program. He received his Ph.D. from the department of mathematics at the University of Oregon for work with Richard Barrar on singularity theory, with a dissertation entitled Singularities in the N-Body Problem. Swimme was a faculty member in the department of mathematics at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, 1978?81. He was a member of the faculty at the Institute in Culture and Creation Spirituality at Holy Names University in Oakland, California, 1983?89, and continues as adjunct professor for Holy Names University's Sophia Center. Swimme brings the context of story to our understanding of the 14 billion year trajectory of cosmogenesis. His published work includes The Universe is a Green Dragon, The Universe Story, written with Thomas Berry, The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos, and "The Journey of the Universe", written with Mary Evelyn Tucker. 

January 1st, 1950 in Seattle (Age 74)