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Also Known As Ian Graeme Barbour
Born October 5, 1923 • Beijing • China
Died December 24, 2013 (aged 90) • Minneapolis • Minnesota
Awards And Honors Templeton Prize (1999)
Notable Works “Ethics in an Age of Technology” • “Issues in Science and Religion” • “Religion in an Age of Science”
Subjects Of Study ethics
Michael Novak
Michael Novak
American theologian, economist, historian, and author
Freeman Dyson
Freeman Dyson
American physicist
Frank Wilczek
Frank Wilczek
American physicist
Holmes Rolston III
American philosopher and theologian
Justus of Ghent: Saint Augustine
St. Augustine
Christian bishop and theologian
Ralph Cudworth
Ralph Cudworth
British theologian and philosopher
Joseph Butler
Joseph Butler
British bishop and philosopher
Nicole, detail of an engraving by Cornelius Vermeulen after a painting by Elisabeth Cheron
Pierre Nicole
French theologian
William Paley
William Paley
British philosopher and priest
Jean Vanier
Swiss-born social activist, theologian, and philosopher
Paul Davies
British physicist and astrobiologist
Arthur Peacocke
British biochemist and theologian
Jonathan Sacks
Jonathan Sacks
British rabbi and author
Polkinghorne, John
John Polkinghorne
English physicist and priest
Espagnat, Bernard d'
Bernard d’Espagnat
French physicist and philosopher
George Pake
American physicist
Alfred Otto Carl Nier
American physicist
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
German-American physicist
Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards
American theologian
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italian-American physicist

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