{{Short description|Academic}} '''William A. Tiller''' (Toronto, Canada, September 18, 1929 &ndash; Scottsdale, Arizona, February 7, 2022) was a professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford University.<ref>{{cite web |title=William Tiller, materials engineer, expert in materials solidification, has died |url=https://news.stanford.edu/report/2022/06/21/william-tiller-materials-engineer-expert-materials-solidification-former-guggenheim-fellow-died/ |publisher=Stanford Report |access-date=6 February 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://engineering.stanford.edu/faculty/07098155|title=William Tiller|publisher=Stanford University, Faculty of Engineering}}{{Dead link|date=October 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref> He wrote ''Science and Human Transformation'', a book about concepts such as subtle energies beyond the four fundamental forces, which he believes act in concert with human consciousness. Tiller appeared in the 2004 film ''What the Bleep Do We Know!?''.<ref name="variety">{{cite magazine | url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117924009/ | title=''What the #$*! Do We Know!?'' (Film review) |author=Robert Koehler |magazine=Variety |date=June 2, 2004 |accessdate=April 3, 2012}}</ref>

== Education and career == Tiller gained his academic reputation for his scientific work in the field of crystallization. He studied at the University of Toronto and obtained his B.A.Sc. in 1952 with a degree in Engineering Physics. He also obtained M.A.Sc. and a Ph.D. degrees from the same university. Altogether, he worked nine years as an advisory physicist with the Westinghouse Research Laboratories and 34 years in academia.<ref name="tillerbio">[http://www.tillerfoundation.com/biography.php Biography of William A. Tiller] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204142451/http://www.tillerfoundation.com/biography.php |date=2012-02-04 }}, the Tiller Foundation</ref> From 1964 to 1992 William A. Tiller was a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University, and during this time he held the position of department chairman from 1966 to 1971. In 1970, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship grant in Natural Sciences – Engineering.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tillerfoundation.com/A2.php |author=William Tiller |title=Answer to a question |accessdate=April 4, 2012 |archive-date=October 11, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111011035248/http://tillerfoundation.com/A2.php |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/14700-william-arthur-tiller |title=William Arthur Tiller |author=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |accessdate=April 4, 2012 |archive-date=January 4, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130104233218/http://www.gf.org/fellows/14700-william-arthur-tiller |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1992 he became professor emeritus. <ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Feigelson|editor-first=R.S.|title=50 years progress in crystal growth : a reprint collection|year=2004|publisher=Elsevier|location=Amsterdam, the Netherlands|isbn=978-0-444-51650-3}}&nbsp;[https://books.google.com/books?id=0lEcYdpLlB0C&q=tiller&pg=PR26 Excerpts available] at Google Books.</ref> Tiller was a Physics Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.<ref>[http://php.aaas.org/about/aaas_fellows/list.php AAAS Fellows list] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140115191304/http://php.aaas.org/about/aaas_fellows/list.php |date=2014-01-15 }} (downloaded 17 March 2012)</ref>

=== Pigasus Award === In his 1982 book, James Randi identified Tiller as the 1979 "scientist who had said the silliest thing" relating to parapsychology in that year; for this Tiller was awarded the Pigasus Award for 1979.

== Psychoenergetics == After his retirement in 1998, he pursued esoteric concepts in psychoenergetics.<ref name=tillerbio/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tillerfoundation.com/mission.php |title=William A. Tiller Foundation: Our Mission |accessdate=April 3, 2012 |archive-date=May 22, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120522071126/http://www.tillerfoundation.com/mission.php |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.paysonroundup.com/news/2009/may/12/payson_physicist_breaks_new_ground_draws_controver/ |author=Tom Russell |title=Payson physicist breaks new ground — draws controversy |publisher=The Payson Roundup |date=May 12, 2009 |accessdate=April 5, 2012 |archive-date=October 21, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021112736/http://www.paysonroundup.com/news/2009/may/12/payson_physicist_breaks_new_ground_draws_controver/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Selected publications== He has published several books, over 250 conventional scientific papers and further 100 topics on psychoenergetics.<ref name="tillerbio"/>

===Books=== * ''The Science of Crystallization: Macroscopic Phenomena and Defect Generation'', Cambridge University Press, 1991, {{ISBN|978-0-521-38828-3}} * ''The Science of Crystallization: Microscopic Interfacial Phenomena'', Cambridge University Press, 1991 (reprinted 1995), {{ISBN|978-0-521-38827-6}} * ''Psychoenergetic Science: A Second Copernican-Scale Revolution'', Pavior Publishers, 2007, {{ISBN|978-1-4243-3863-4}} * ''Some Science Adventures with Real Magic'', Pavior Publishers, 2005, {{ISBN|1-929331-11-8}} * ''Conscious Acts of Creation: The Emergence of a New Physics'', Pavior Publishers, 2001, {{ISBN|1-929331-05-3}} * ''Science and Human Transformation: Subtle Energies, Intentionality and Consciousness'', Pavior Publishers, 1997, {{ISBN|0-9642637-4-2}} * Foreword to ''Matrix Energetics: The Science and Art of Transformation'', Atria Books, 2007, Richard Bartlett {{ISBN|978-1-58270-163-9}}

===Selected papers=== * [http://www.laskow.net/articles/EffectsOfEmotion.pdf The effects of emotions on short-term power spectrum analysis of heart rate variability] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303231652/http://www.laskow.net/articles/EffectsOfEmotion.pdf |date=2016-03-03 }}. McCraty R, Atkinson M, Tiller WA, Rein G, Watkins AD. – ''American Journal of Cardiology'', 1996 Feb. * {{cite journal | last1=Pearson | first1=Eric M. | last2=Halicioglu | first2=Timur | last3=Tiller | first3=William A. | title=Laplace-transform technique for deriving thermodynamic equations from the classical microcanonical ensemble | journal=Physical Review A | volume=32 | issue=5 | date=1985-11-01 | issn=0556-2791 | doi=10.1103/PhysRevA.32.3030 | pages=3030–3039 | pmid=9896445 | bibcode=1985PhRvA..32.3030P }} * {{cite journal | last1=Boyers | first1=David G. | last2=Tiller | first2=William A. | title=Corona discharge photography | journal=Journal of Applied Physics | volume=44 | issue=7 | date=1973-07-01 | issn=0021-8979 | doi=10.1063/1.1662715 | pages=3102–3112 | bibcode=1973JAP....44.3102B }} * [http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_07_3_tiller.pdf What are subtle energies?] WA Tiller – ''Journal of Scientific Exploration'', Vol. 7, No. 3, 1993. * [http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_13_2_dibble.pdf Electronic device-mediated pH changes in water]. WE Dibble Jr, WA Tiller – ''Journal of Scientific Exploration'', Vol. 13, No. 2, 1999.

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==External links== * [http://www.tillerfoundation.com www.tillerfoundation.com] – the Tiller Foundation * [http://www.tillerfoundation.com/biography.php Biography of William A. Tiller] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204142451/http://www.tillerfoundation.com/biography.php |date=2012-02-04 }}, the Tiller Foundation * {{IMDb name|1632352}} * [http://www.glntv.tv/dgnetworks/archive/TyVCRSVFNSVCMg==/Professor-William-Tiller-%28Part-One%29 The Life and Career of Professor William A. Tiller (Part Three Series 2010)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140325215719/http://www.glntv.tv/dgnetworks/archive/TyVCRSVFNSVCMg==/Professor-William-Tiller-(Part-One) |date=2014-03-25 }} Interviewed by David William Gibbons * [https://engineering.stanford.edu/people/william-tiller William Tiller Emeritus]

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