biography
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| Physicist and clergyman, born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, SW England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, where he went on to become professor of mathematical physics. In 1983 he resigned his prestigious chair to study for the Anglican priesthood, later serving as curate and vicar. He was appointed Fellow, Dean and Chaplain of Trinity Hall, Cambridge (1986) and president of Queens' College (1989–96), and received a knighthood in 1997. His books on the compatibility of religion and science include The Way the World Is (1983), Science and Christian Belief (1994), Belief in God in an Age of Science (1998), and The God of Hope and the End of the World (2002). In 2002 he received the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. |
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