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Presidents
ISSR Current President
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Sir Brian Heap
Sir Brian Heap CBE ScD FRS is a biological scientist at the Capability and Sustainability Centre, St Edmund's College, Cambridge, Special Professor, University of Nottingham, and principal scientific adviser, ZyGEM Co Ltd New Zealand. He has doctorates from Nottingham and Cambridge, publishes in endocrine physiology, biotechnology, sustainable consumption and production, and science policy, was Master of St Edmund's College, Vice-President and Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, Director of Research at the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, President of the Institute of Biology, and UK Representative on the European Science Foundation and the NATO Science Committee. He is a member of Christians in Science and was on the Advisory Board of the Templeton Foundation and a Templeton Prize judge, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, the Department of Health's Expert Group on Cloning, and worked with the World Health Organisation in China and various pharmaceutical companies in the USA. |
Past Presidents
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Professor George Ellis
Professor George F. R. Ellis, FRAS is Professor of Applied
Mathematics at the University of Cape Town. After completing his
Ph.D. at Cambridge University with Dennis Sciama as supervisor, he
lectured at Cambridge and has been visiting Professor at Texas
University, the University of Chicago, Hamburg University, Boston
University, the University of Alberta, and Queen Mary College (London University). He has written many papers on relativity theory and
cosmology, and inter alia co-authored The Large Scale Structure of
Space Time with Stephen Hawking, The Density of Matter in the
Universe with Peter Coles, and Dynamical Systems in Cosmology with
John Wainwright. He has also written on science policy and
developmental issues, science education, and science and religion
issues, and was co-author with Nancey Murphy of On the Moral Nature
of the Universe. He is past president of the International Society of General Relativity and Gravitation and of the Royal Society of South
Africa. He has been awarded various prizes and honorary degrees and
was awarded the Star of South Africa Medal by President Nelson
Mandela in 1999, and was elected FRS in 2007.
A detailed biography can be found at: www.mth.uct.ac.za/~ellis/index. Among his recent books are Before the Beginning, On The Moral Nature of the universe: Cosmology, Theology, and Ethics and The Far Future Universe.
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Revd. Dr. John Polkinghorne
Reverend Dr. John Polkinghorne, KBE FRS worked in theoretical elementary particle physics for 25 years and was Professor of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge University, 1968-79. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (the British National Academy of Science) in 1974. In 1979 Polkinghorne resigned his chair to study for the Anglican priesthood. He was ordained in 1982. After some years in parish life he returned to Cambridge to work on issues in science and theology, a topic on which he has written many books, including his Gifford Lectures, Science and Christian Belief (in the USA, The Faith of a Physicist), his Terry Lectures, Belief in God in an Age of Science, and more recently, The God of Hope and the End of the World and Exploring Reality. In 1996 he retired from being President of Queen's College, Cambridge, and he was knighted in 1997. In the United Kingdom, Polkinghorne has been the Chairman of several Committees offering advice to Government on ethical and social issues related to new developments in science and technology. In 2002 he was awarded the Templeton Prize. |
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