J. Richard Gott III is a professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University. For fourteen years he served as the chairman of the judges of the National Westinghouse & Intel Science Talent Search, the premier science competition for high school students. The recipient of the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching, Gott has written on time travel for "Time" & on other topics for "Scientific American", "New Scientist", & "American Scientist". He resides in Princeton Junction, New Jersey.