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Born in England, UK
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National Service in the Royal Army Educational Corps
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Mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1952 as Senior Wrangler
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PhD in physics in 1955,
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John Polkinghorne married Ruth Martin and by the end of the year had sailed from Liverpool to New York.
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Professor of mathematical physics at the University of Cambridge
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Chairman of the governors of The Perse School from 1972 to 1981.
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Became an ordained Anglican priest in 1982.
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He served as the president of Queens' College, Cambridge
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The Quantum World (1989)
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He was selected to give the prestigious Gifford Lectures in 1993–1994, which he later published as The Faith of a Physicist.
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He was knighted in 1997. In 1997 he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE), although as an ordained priest in the Church of England, he is not styled as "Sir John Polkinghorne"
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https://www.pbs.org/video/religion-and-ethics-newsweekly-sir-john-polkinghorne-science-and-theology/ Sir John Polkinghorne on Science and Theology
Clip: Season 1 | 6m 49s A 1998 Perspective on one man's view of the continuing struggle between religion and science. Sir John Polkinghorne is both a world-class physicist and an Anglican priest who says science can explain only part of what's real. -
2002 received the £1 million Templeton Prize, awarded for exceptional contributions to affirming life's spiritual dimension.
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Quantum Physics and Theology: An Unexpected Kinship (2005)
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In 2006 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Hong Kong Baptist University as part of their 50-year celebrations.
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Exploring Reality: The Intertwining of Science and Religion (2007)
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Questions of Truth (2009)
