Charles M. Wynn

Charles M. Wynn, Sr., Professor of Chemistry at Eastern Connecticut State University, is a "Leading Educator of the World," according to the Cambridge, England-based International Biographical Centre. Dr. Wynn was born in New York and educated at the Bronx High School of Science, City College of New York, and University of Michigan. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer at the Malayan Teachers College in Malaysia where he was Consultant in Chemistry to the Southeast Asian Regional Centre for Education in Mathematics and Science. He was appointed Visiting Scholar in Science and Society at Wesleyan University in Connecticut and honored for his teaching and scholarship as the E.I. du Pont Outstanding Teaching Fellow at the University of Michigan, Outstanding Educator of America at Oakland Community College in Michigan, and Distinguished Faculty Member of the Year at Eastern Connecticut State University. His critically acclaimed science trilogy (co-authored with Arthur W. Wiggins), The Five Biggest Ideas in Science, The Five Biggest Unsolved Problems in Science, and Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction: Where Real Science Ends and Pseudoscience Begins, has been translated into eleven languages. He has lectured about these subjects in Malaysia, China, Canada, Australia, England, Puerto Rico and Russia. His latest book (co-edited with Arthur W. Wiggins) is And God said, "Let there be Evolution!": Reconciling the Book of Genesis, the Qur'an and the Theory of Evolution.