biography
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| (1924– )
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| biography:
| Biophysical chemist and clergyman, born in Watford, Greater London, UK. He studied at Oxford, and was later appointed lecturer in biophysical chemistry at Birmingham University (1948). During the 1950s he was a co-researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, studying the newly discovered double helix of DNA. He then joined the faculty at Oxford (1959), where he has taught since. His interest in religion led him to theological study, and he gained a degree in 1971, making him the only person in Oxford's divinity faculty to hold dual doctorates in science and theology. In 1971 he was ordained a member of the Anglican clergy, and in 1986 he founded the Society of Ordained Scientists, a mainly Anglican organization for working scientists. He has published many books on the creative interaction between science and religion, including Theology for a Scientific Age (1990), God and the New Biology (1994), and Paths from Science Towards God (2001). He received the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion in 2001. |
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