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John Polkinghorne

1930 - 2021

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John Charlton Polkinghorne (16 October 1930 – 9 March 2021) was an English 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Polkinghorne has received more than 433,420 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). John Polkinghorne is the 621st most popular physicist (down from 616th in 2019), the 3,415th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,463rd in 2019) and the 72nd most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Polkinghorne ranks 621 out of 717Before her are Charles Stark Draper, Ralph H. Fowler, John C. Slater, Wilhelm Hisinger, Julius Wess, and William Higinbotham. After her are Alfred Landé, Jan Burgers, Charles Fabry, Ole Jacob Broch, John Hopkinson, and Balthasar van der Pol.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, John Polkinghorne ranks 352Before her are André Lerond, Smail Hamdani, Anatoli Maslyonkin, Tsutomu Seki, James Coco, and Richard Anuszkiewicz. After her are Eino Tamberg, Owen Garriott, Gladys West, Salvatore De Giorgi, Oleg Anofriyev, and Richard Bonynge. Among people deceased in 2021, John Polkinghorne ranks 452Before her are Ivo Trumbić, Jean-François Stévenin, John Richardson, Leslie Bricusse, John Shelby Spong, and Mary Wilson. After her are Tatyana Tolstaya, Antón García Abril, Yevgeny Nesterenko, Goodwill Zwelithini, Rildo da Costa Menezes, and Padma Sachdev.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Polkinghorne ranks 3,415 out of 7,765Before her are Isabella Beeton (1836), Alan Ball Jr. (1945), Alan White (1949), Emil Voigt (1883), Liam Howlett (1971), and Colin Salmon (1962). After her are Ian Hunter (1939), Johnny Haynes (1934), Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans (1880), Ireen Sheer (1949), Lisa Stansfield (1966), and Joseph Noel Paton (1821).

Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John Polkinghorne ranks 72Before her are C. P. Snow (1905), John D. Barrow (1952), John Robison (1739), John Lennard-Jones (1894), William Astbury (1898), and Ralph H. Fowler (1889). After her are John Hopkinson (1849), Alfred Ewing (1855), Peter Mark Roget (1779), John Aitken (1839), Brandon Carter (1942), and Julian Barbour (1937).