Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ruggero Maria Santilli (born 1935) is an Italian-American physicist and a proponent of fringe scientific theories. Ruggero Maria Santilli was born in Capracotta, in the Italian region of Molise. Santilli studied physics at the University of Naples and went on to attend the Graduate School in Physics of the University of Turin, graduating in 1966. In 1967 he was invited by the University of Miami to conduct research under NASA financial support. Starting in 1968, Santilli was an Associate Professor of Physics at Boston University, teaching physics and mathematics, and conducted research for the United States Air Force. During this time, he became a naturalized American citizen. In 1976 and 1977 Santilli was a visiting scholar at the Center for Theoretical Physics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1978 he was briefly involved in research at Harvard University, sponsored by Shlomo Sternberg in the Mathematics Department. In 1983 Santilli became the President of his newly-formed Institute for Basic Research.