 Sir John Polkinghorne
Reverend Dr. John Polkinghorne, KBE FRS (1930-2021) worked in
theoretical elementary particle physics for 25 years and was Professor of
Mathematical Physics at Cambridge University, 1968-79. He was elected a Fellow
of the Royal Society (the British National Academy of Science) in 1974. In 1979
Polkinghorne resigned his chair to study for the Anglican priesthood. He was
ordained in 1982. After some years in parish life he returned to Cambridge to
work on issues in science and theology, a topic on which he has written many books,
including his Gifford Lectures, Science and Christian Belief (in the
USA, The Faith of a Physicist), his Terry Lectures, Belief in God in an Age
of Science, and more recently, The God of Hope and the End of the World
and Exploring Reality. In 1996 he retired from being President of
Queen's College, Cambridge, and he was knighted in 1997. In the United Kingdom,
Polkinghorne has been the Chairman of several Committees offering advice to
Government on ethical and social issues related to new developments in science
and technology. He was the first president of the International Society for Science and Religion and in 2002 he was awarded the Templeton Prize.
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