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John Charlton Polkinghorne KBE FRS (16 October 1930 – 9 March 2021) was an English theoretical physicist, theologian, and Anglican priest. A prominent and leading voice explaining the relationship between science and religion , he was professor of mathematical physics at the University of Cambridge from 1968 to 1979, when he resigned his ...
John Polkinghorne (born October 16, 1930, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England—died March 9, 2021, Cambridge, U.K.) was an English physicist and priest who publicly championed the reconciliation of science and religion.
Sep 29, 2021 · A personal recollection of gratitude reports on the way that the writings of John Polkinghorne inspired and guided the author’s own thinking in science and theology since meeting him as a graduate ...
- Tom C. B. McLeish
- 2021
Mar 23, 2022 · John Polkinghorne made many contributions to theoretical elementary particle physics. Between 1959 and 1979 he led the theoretical physics group in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics in Cambridge University.
Mar 10, 2005 · John Polkinghorne was a mathematical physicist and Anglican priest whose treatment of theology as a natural science invigorated the search for an interface between science and religion.
Mar 12, 2021 · The mathematical physicist and Anglican priest, who explored the relationship between science and religion, passed away on March 9, 2021. He received the Templeton Prize in 2002 for his “binocular” vision of the truth and his influence on the John Templeton Foundation.
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Mar 12, 2021 · The Templeton Philanthropies mourn the passing of mathematical physicist and Anglican priest, the Reverend Canon Dr. John Charlton Polkinghorne, the 2002 Templeton Prize Laureate. He died on March 9, 2021 in Cambridge at the age of 90.
