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Trinity College is a constituent of Cambridge University, founded in 1546.
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Jonathan and Ruth Martin were both mathematics students, and they were both members of the Christian Union. Their relationship blossomed during college, and continued even after he graduated in 1952.
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Jonathan was promoted to Reader in 1965, then Prof. of Mathematical Physics in 1968 which allowed him to spend periods at Princeton, Berkeley and Stanford in the United States, and at CERN near Geneva in Switzerland.
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Jonathan conducted research at CERN looking for the building blocks of protons, electrons, and neutrons. He also co-authored nultiple books including "Partons and Duality in Deep Inelastic Lepton Scattering." together with P. Landshoff, -
Jonathan was honored for his outstanding contributions in mathematical physics The Royal Society (formerly the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge) was
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In 1989 he became President of Queens' College, Cambridge, and he held this position until he retired in 1996.
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He made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE). Her Majesty, the Queen bestowed this upon him for distinguished service to science, religion, learning, and medical ethics. (https://socratesinthecity.com/guests/sir-john-polkinghorne/ and https://www.closertotruth.com/contributor/john-polkinghorne/profile ) -
PBS aired this short video and interview with Jonathon on their show "Religion and Ethics Newsweekly" (https://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/1998/05/08/may-08-1998-sir-john-polkinghorne-on-science-and-theology/15143/).. -
In this enlightening interview, he answers difficult questions from both the scientific view, and the theological view. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkHfWezUAak)