Eminent Lives in Twentieth-century Science & ReligionNicolaas A. Rupke Can science and religion coexist in harmony? Or is conflict inevitable? In this volume an international team of distinguished scholars addresses these enduring yet urgent questions by examining the lives of thirteen eminent twentieth-century scientists whose careers were marked by the interaction of science and religion: Rachel Carson, Charles A. Coulson, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Arthur S. Eddington, Albert Einstein, Ronald A. Fisher, Julian Huxley, Pascual Jordan, Robert A. Millikan, Ivan P. Pavlov, Michael I. Pupin, Abdus Salam, and Edward O. Wilson. The richly empirical studies show a diversity of creative engagements between science and religion that defy efforts to set the two at odds. |
Contents
Preface | 7 |
MARK STOLL | 32 |
Rachel Carson 190764 | 47 |
ARIE LEEGWATER | 73 |
VAN DER MEER | 105 |
RAMPELT | 129 |
GEBHARD LÖHR | 155 |
JAMES MOORE | 179 |
RICHARD H BEYLER | 233 |
EDWARD B DAVIS | 253 |
TORSTEN RÜTING | 275 |
Michael Idvorsky Pupin 18581935 | 295 |
MARTIN RIEXINGER | 317 |
MARK STOLL | 333 |
NUMBERS | 349 |
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