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50 Nobel Laureates and Other Great Scientists Who Believe in God
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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

Very timely,
Dear Alan,

what with all the media brouhaha from Stephen Hawking's recent writing!  But Hawking's comments were based only upon his own justifications for theories he's invented, so his thoughts are going roundandround.

Your list can remind us that those who aim high for their inspiration can make breakthroughs to more ultimate, or at least useful, truths -- if you want to look at it that way.

Thanks!
Bets

betson wrote on Oct 24^th, 2010 at 4:11am:

Very timely, Dear Alan, what with all the media brouhaha from Stephen Hawking's recent writing!  But Hawking's comments were based only upon his own justifications for theories he's invented, so his thoughts are going roundandround. Your list can remind us that those who aim high for their inspiration can make breakthroughs to more ultimate, or at least useful, truths -- if you want to look at it that way. Thanks! Bets

Hi Bets,

Thanks for your thoughts on the matter Stephen Hawking is an atheist

Love

Alan

Its great to see that people believe in something. Just because a religion is listed on paperwork somewhere dosent necessarily mean that the person who it it listed for is really a believer in God. I continue to hold Mr Hawking in high esteem, even given his stance on God. For myself, God is a more advanced, more spiritually aware being. I communicate with higher beings all the time during meditation and out of body explorations. Therefor I believe I communicate with beings that others "could" believe as being God, or God like. If all these people believe in a God and a number of them beleave in different beliefs then is there more than one God? Does Islam have the same God as Christianity? I think it would have been more accurate to say these people that were listed have an affiliation with these religions and not necessarily beleave in God.(?)
 

Greetings all!  :)

Good point, Hawkeye. I think some on the list would only have been nominal "secular" members of those religions, or just born into families with those traditions, perhaps.

Darwin is interesting in that he was actually taking a theological degree at the time the offer to travel on The Beagle as ship's naturalist came his way. The rest is history, of course, (and he became especially embittered of formal religion when his young children died).

'Believing' in God depends how the concept is defined. If God is Consciousness, the true underpinning of reality, then of course we are all God, God is us. All One. And many of the secularists on the list might agree with that.

Alfred

I agree with Hawkeye, just because someone grew up in a particular religion does not mea they believe in the God concept. So I find the table sort of misleading, Alan.

Having said that, I find it impelling to point out a current scientist who, while not included on the Einstein level, is very prominent in his field and has publically discussed his belief in God, though you may not have heard of this in South Africa!

Francis Collins
science credentials:
http://www.genome.gov/10000779

belief statement:
http://articles.cnn.com/2007-04-03/us/collins.commentary_1_god-dna-revelation?_s=PM:US