Stan Lippmann

Stanley Irving Lippmann is a physics teacher at Modern English School, Cairo. Dr. Lippmann spent 15 years as research scientist at Johns Hopkins University and at General Atomics, specializing in the atomic physics of plasmas applied to nuclear fusion research. He has over 40 scientific publications in this field. During his later career as an attorney in Seattle, he was known for his anti-vaccination activism and as a perennial candidate.

Lippmann was born in Brooklyn, New York and received his undergraduate degree in physics from New York University, going on to earn a PhD from Johns Hopkins University. In 1995 he moved to Seattle from his then home in California to attend law school, taking a JD from the University of Washington School of Law in 1998.

Lippmann has unsuccessfully run for public office a dozen times, standing for election for Mayor of Seattle, Seattle City Council, U.S. House of Representatives, Attorney General of Washington, Board Member of the Seattle Monorail Project, King County Executive, Mayor of Lake Forest Park, Washington, and for the Washington House of Representatives.

While in law school, Lippmann wrote a lengthy paper railing against mandatory vaccinations. When running for King County Executive in 2009, he called the 2009 swine flu pandemic a "hoax" intended to "move more Tamiflu off the shelf."

A former attorney, Lippmann has occasionally made headlines for reasons unrelated to his frequent political campaigns. The month following the September 11 terrorist attacks, Lippmann attended a "flag-waving rally" organized by Seattle conservative talk radio station KVI-AM carrying a sign showing the head of George W. Bush superimposed on the body of Adolf Hitler. According to Lippmann, he wanted to "shock the brainwashed crowd". Despite being protected by eight Seattle police officers, Lippmann was still assaulted by a passerby.