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John Polkinghorne
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physicist, theologian and anglican priest (1930–2021)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1930
- Died
- 2021
- Works
- 100
Top works
- Trinity and an Entangled World
- From Physicist to Priest
- El Dios de La Esperanza y El Fin del Mundo
- Belief in God in an Age of Science (Yale Nota Bene)
- Quarks Chaos And Christianity
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1930
- Active to
- 2021
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- Listeners
- 32
- Total plays
- 88
John Charlton Polkinghorne KBE FRS (born 16 October 1930) is an English theoretical physicist, theologian, writer, and Anglican priest. He was professor of Mathematical physics at the University of Cambridge from 1968 to 1979, when he resigned his chair to study for the priesthood, becoming an ordained Anglican priest in 1982. He served as the president of Queens' College, Cambridge from 1988 until 1996. Polkinghorne is the author of five books on physics <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,531x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,586x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,896x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,562x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,125x
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Quotes
- “Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.”
- “God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show.”
- “God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself.”
- “There is much cloudy unpredictable process throughout the whole of the physical world. It is a coherent possibility that God interacts with the history of creation by means of "information input" into its open physical process. The causal net of the universe is not drawn so tight as to exclude this possibility. Mere mechanism is dead, and a more subtle and supple universe is accessible to the providential interaction of the Creator.”
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Key facts
- Preceded by
- Ronald Oxburgh
- Succeeded by
- Lord Eatwell
- Born
- John Charlton Polkinghorne , ( 1930-10-16 ) 16 October 1930, Weston-super-Mare , Somerset , England
- Died
- 9 March 2021 (2021-03-09) (aged 90), Cambridge , England
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Spouse
- Ruth Polkinghorne ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1955 )
- Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Society (1974) KBE (1997) Templeton Prize (2002)
- Church
- Church of England
- Ordained
- 1981 (deacon) 1982 (priest)
- Offices held
- Vicar of Blean (1984–1986) Dean of Chapel at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (1986–1989) Canon Theologian of Liverpool Cathedral (1994–2005)
- Alma mater
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Thesis
- Contributions to Quantum Field Theory (1955)
- Doctoral advisor
- Nicholas Kemmer Abdus Salam
- Influences
- Ian Barbour Paul Dirac Murray Gell-Mann Bernard Lonergan Jürgen Moltmann Michael Polanyi W. H. Vanstone
- Discipline
- Physics theology
- Sub discipline
- Mathematical physics particle physics
- School or tradition
- Evangelical Anglicanism theological critical realism
- Institutions
- University of Edinburgh Trinity Hall, Cambridge Queens' College, Cambridge
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Encyclopedic overview
John Charlton Polkinghorne (16 October 1930 – 9 March 2021) was a Cornish 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 chair to study for the priesthood, becoming an ordained Anglican priest in 1982. He served as the president of Queens' College, Cambridge, from 1988 until 1996.
Polkinghorne was the author of five books on physics and twenty-six on the relationship between science and religion; his publications include The Quantum World (1989), Quantum Physics and Theology: An Unexpected Kinship (2005), Exploring Reality: The Intertwining of Science and Religion (2007), and Questions of Truth (2009). The Polkinghorne Reader (edited by Thomas Jay Oord) provides key excerpts from Polkinghorne's most influential books. He was knighted in 1997 and in 2002 received the £1-million Templeton Prize, awarded for exceptional contributions to affirming life's spiritual dimension.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “John Polkinghorne” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.