Professor Russell Stannard
United Kingdom
Professor Russell Stannard is Emeritus Professor at the Open University, UK, where for 21 years he headed the Department of Physics. He carried out research into high energy nuclear physics at CERN in Geneva and at other laboratories in USA and Italy. He is a licensed lay minister of the Anglican Church, and spent a year at the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, USA. He has been a Trustee of the John Templeton Foundation, and is currently a member of the foundation's Strategic Planning Committee. Among his various books on science and religion, The God Experiment was based on his Gifford Lectures, and Science and Wonders on his BBC radio series of that name. He was a regular broadcaster on the BBC programme Thought for the Day. His video series The Question Is. . . has been adopted by 40% of all UK secondary schools as a means of addressing science/religion issues. He currently has two major video series on the internet: Boundaries of the Knowable and Science and Belief: The Big Issues. He writes extensively for young people as well as adults. His trilogy of Uncle Albert books, introducing children of 10+ to relativity and quantum theory, have become best-sellers in 20 languages. He has been awarded the OBE, the Bragg Medal of the Institute of Physics, the Templeton Project Trust Award, and been made Fellow of University College London.
Books
Grounds for Reasonable Belief,
Scottish Academic Press
1989
Doing Away with God?,
Marshall Pickering
1993
Science and Wonders,
Faber and Faber
1996
The God Experiment,
Faber and Faber, Hidden Spring
1999
The New World of Mr Tompkins,
Cambridge University Press
1999
God for the 21st Century,
Templeton Foundation Press, SPCK,
2000
Why?,
Lion Hudson
2003
Science and the Renewal of Belief,
Templeton Foundation Press
2004