50 Nobel Laureates and Other Great Scientists Who Believe in God
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- Lists of Influential Scientists (including lists of scientists who were religious, Christian) |
Tihomir Dimitrov's online book of quotations 50 Nobel Laureates and Other Great Scientists Who Believe in God (2007) is mostly about scientists, although it also features sections about non-scientist Nobel Prize winners. The book can be found at http://nobelists.net/
The author's website describes the book: "This book is an anthology of well-documented quotations. It is a free e-book."
It should be noted that 50 Nobel Laureates is written primarily for inspirational purposes and is not intended to be a source of detailed or balanced biographical data. Nevertheless, the book is a treasure trove of interesting information. Also note that the author's criteria for including Nobel Laureates who "believe in God" does not imply a specific type of belief or adherence to any specific religious group or denomination. The individuals included in the book represent a wide range of religious beliefs, religious affiliation, and religious practice.
50 Nobel Laureates includes chapters on the following individuals:
| PART I. Nobel Scientists (20-21 Century) | ||
| Albert Einstein | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Jewish |
| Max Planck | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Protestant |
| Erwin Schrodinger | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Catholic |
| Werner Heisenberg | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Lutheran |
| Robert Millikan | Nobel Laureate in Physics | probably Congregationalist |
| Charles Hard Townes | Nobel Laureate in Physics | United Church of Christ (raised Baptist) |
| Arthur Schawlow | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Methodist |
| William D. Phillips | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Methodist |
| William H. Bragg | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Anglican |
| Guglielmo Marconi | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Catholic and Anglican |
| Arthur Compton | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Presbyterian |
| Arno Penzias | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Jewish |
| Nevill Mott | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Anglican |
| Isidor Isaac Rabi | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Jewish |
| Abdus Salam | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Muslim |
| Antony Hewish | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Christian (denomination?) |
| Joseph H. Taylor, Jr. | Nobel Laureate in Physics | Quaker |
| Alexis Carrel | Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology | Catholic |
| John Eccles | Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology | Catholic |
| Joseph Murray | Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology | Catholic |
| Ernst Chain | Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology | Jewish |
| George Wald | Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology | Jewish |
| Ronald Ross | Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology | Christian (denomination?) |
| Derek Barton | Nobel Laureate in Chemistry | Christian (denomination?) |
| Christian Anfinsen | Nobel Laureate in Chemistry | Jewish |
| Walter Kohn | Nobel Laureate in Chemistry | Jewish |
| Richard Smalley | Nobel Laureate in Chemistry | Christian (denomination?) |
| PART II. Nobel Writers (20-21 Century) | ||
| T.S. Eliot | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Anglo-Catholic (Anglican) |
| Rudyard Kipling | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Anglican |
| Alexander Solzhenitsyn | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Russian Orthodox |
| François Mauriac | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Catholic |
| Hermann Hesse | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Christian; Buddhist? |
| Winston Churchill | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Anglican |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Lutheran; Freudian; Marxist; atheist; Messianic Jew |
| Sigrid Undset | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Catholic (previously Lutheran) |
| Rabindranath Tagore | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Hindu |
| Rudolf Eucken | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Christian (denomination?) |
| Isaac Singer | Nobel Laureate in Literature | Jewish |
| PART III. Nobel Peace Laureates (20-21 Century) | ||
| Albert Schweitzer | Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | Lutheran |
| Jimmy Carter | Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | Baptist (former Southern Baptist) |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | Dutch Reformed; Episcopalian |
| Woodrow Wilson | Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | Presbyterian |
| Frederik de Klerk | Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | Dutch Reformed |
| Nelson Mandela | Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | Christian (denomination?) |
| Kim Dae-Jung | Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | Catholic |
| Dag Hammarskjold | Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | Christian (denomination?) |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | Baptist |
| Adolfo Perez Esquivel | Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | Catholic |
| Desmond Tutu | Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | Anglican |
| John R. Mott | Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | Methodist |
| Part IV. Founders of Modern Science (16-21 Century) | ||
| Isaac Newton | Founder of Classical Physics and Infinitesimal Calculus | Anglican (rejected Trinitarianism, i.e., Athanasianism; believed in the Arianism of the Primitive Church) |
| Galileo Galilei | Founder of Experimental Physics | Catholic |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | Founder of Heliocentric Cosmology | Catholic (priest) |
| Johannes Kepler | Founder of Physical Astronomy and Modern Optics | Lutheran |
| Francis Bacon | Founder of the Scientific Inductive Method | Anglican |
| René Descartes | Founder of Analytical Geometry and Modern Philosophy | Catholic |
| Blaise Pascal | Founder of Hydrostatics, Hydrodynamics, and the Theory of Probabilities | Jansenist |
| Michael Faraday | Founder of Electronics and Electro-Magnetics | Sandemanian |
| James Clerk Maxwell | Founder of Statistical Thermodynamics | Presbyterian; Anglican; Baptist |
| Lord Kelvin | Founder of Thermodynamics and Energetics | Anglican |
| Robert Boyle | Founder of Modern Chemistry | Anglican |
| William Harvey | Founder of Modern Medicine | Anglican (nominal) |
| John Ray | Founder of Modern Biology and Natural History | Calvinist (denomination?) |
| Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | German Mathematician and Philosopher, Founder of Infinitesimal Calculus | Lutheran |
| Charles Darwin | Founder of the Theory of Evolution | Anglican (nominal); Unitarian |
| Ernst Haeckel | German Biologist, the Most Influential Evolutionist in Continental Europe | |
| Thomas H. Huxley | English Biologist and Evolutionist, Famous As "Darwin's Bulldog" | |
| Joseph J. Thomson | Nobel Laureate in Physics, Discoverer of the Electron, Founder of Atomic Physics | Anglican |
| Louis Pasteur | Founder of Microbiology and Immunology | Catholic |
| Part V. Great Philosophers (17-21 Century) | ||
| Immanuel Kant | One of the Greatest Philosophers in the History of Western Philosophy | Lutheran |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Founder of Modern Deism | born Protestant; converted as a teen to Catholic |
| Voltaire | French Philosopher and Historian, One of the Most Influential Thinkers of the Enlightenment | raised in Jansenism |
| David Hume | Scottish Empiricist Philosopher, Historian, and Economist, Founder of Modern Skepticism | Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) |
| Spinoza | Dutch-Jewish Philosopher, the Chief Exponent of Modern Rationalism | Judaism; later pantheism/deism |
| Giordano Bruno | Italian Philosopher, Astronomer, and Mathematician, Founder of the Theory of the Infinite Universe | Catholic |
| George Berkeley | Irish Philosopher and Mathematician, Founder of Modern Idealism, Famous as "The Precursor of Mach and Einstein" | Anglican |
| John Stuart Mill | English Philosopher and Economist, the Major Exponent of Utilitarianism | agnostic; Utilitarian |
| Richard Swinburne | Oxford Professor of Philosophy, One of the Most Influential Theistic Philosophers | |
| PART VI. Other Religious Nobelists | ||
| 60 more Nobel Prize winners are listed (32 scientists, 17 writers, 11 Nobel Nobel Peace Laureates) | ||
| PART VII. Nobelists, Philosophers, and Scientists on Jesus | ||
| Quotes by 16 individuals about their beliefs about Jesus
- Alexis Carrel - Albert Einstein - Arthur Compton - Robert Millikan - Francois Mauriac - Sigrid Undset - T.S. Eliot - Mother Theresa - Albert Schweitzer - Theodore Roosevelt - Frederik de Klerk - John R. Mott - Kim Dae-Jung - Martin Luther King, Jr. - Jimmy Carter - Blaise Pascal | ||
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