Revd Prof Michael Heller

Professor of Philosophy
Pontifical Academy of Theology in Cracow, Poland

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Professor Michael Heller is professor of philosophy at the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Cracow, Poland and an adjunct member of the Vatican Observatory staff. He also serves as a lecturer in the philosophy of science and logic at the Theological Institute in Tarnow. A Roman Catholic priest, Dr. Heller was ordained in 1959. He was graduated from the University of Lublin where he earned a master's degree in philosophy in 1965 and a Ph.D. in cosmology in 1966. After beginning his teaching career at Tarnow, he joined the faculty of the Pontifical Academy of Theology in 1972 and was appointed to a full professorship in 1985. The recipient of an honorary degree from the Technical University in Cracow, he has been a visiting professor at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium and a visiting scientist at Belgium's Liège University, Oxford University, Leicester University, Ruhr University in Germany, The Catholic University of America, and the University of Arizona among others. Dr. Heller is a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

His current research is concerned with the singularity problem in relativistic cosmology and the use of noncommutative geometry in seeking the unification of general relativity and quantum mechanics. He has published nearly 200 scientific papers not only in general relativity and relativistic cosmology but also in philosophy and the history of science and science and theology and is the author of more than 20 books, the most recent volume being Is Physics an Art? (1998).

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