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Birth Date
Born in Weston-super-Mare, England -
Brother Death
His brother, Peter, past away on a Royal Air Force mission over the North Atlantic. -
Begins College
He begins college at Trinity College, Cambridge -
Graduates College
He graduates from Trinity College, Cambridge. -
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Publishes Important Papers
1954:
'An identity for the S matrix for a finite time interval'
'Renormalization of the transformation operators of quantum electrodynamics'
'Normal products of Heisenberg operators'
1955:
'Temporally ordered graphs and bound state equations'
'On the classification of fundamental particles'
1956:
'General dispersion relations' -
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Publishes Important Papers Cont.
1957:
'Causal products in quantum field theory'
'Cauchy's problem in quantum field theory'
'On Schwinger's variational principle'
'On the strong interactions'
'Causal amplitudes and the Yang-Feldman formalism'
1958:
'Generalized retarded products'
'Higher order spinor Lagragians'
1959:
Unstable states and the separable potential model'
1960-1961:
'The analytic properties of perturbation theory' -
Career Change
He enters the Ordained Ministry of the Church of England -
Ordained
He became ordained by Ely Cathedral -
First Book
He publishes his first book, 'The Way the World Is: The Christian Perspective of a Scientist' -
Knighted
He was awarded the title of Knight for his services in the scientific and religious fields. -
Awarded Prize
He was awarded the Templeton Prize -
Founded Society
He founded the International Society for Science and Religion, and became the Founding President. -
References:
Cacpro. Sir John Polkinghorne. Socrates in the City. https://socratesinthecity.com/guests/sir-john-polkinghorne/. John Polkinghorne - Biography. https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Polkinghorne/. John Polkinghorne. The Gifford Lectures. (2019, June 20). https://www.giffordlectures.org/lecturers/john-polkinghorne.