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A Scientific Theology

A Scientific Theology is a set of three books by Alister McGrath that explores the parallels between the working assumptions and methods of Christian theology and those of the natural sciences.

Erwin Schrödinger Prize

The Erwin Schrödinger Prize (German: Erwin Schrödinger-Preis) is an annual award presented by the Austrian Academy of Sciences for lifetime achievement by Austrians in the fields of mathematics and natural sciences.

Iakob Gogebashvili

Simultaneously, he attended the lectures in natural sciences at the Kiev University where he became familiar with the political ideas of Russian enlighteners such as Herzen, Belinsky and Chernyshevsky.

Liviu Constantinescu

Born into an old family of Christian Orthodox clerics from Transylvania, Liviu Constantinescu ignored suggestions from family and teachers to become an engineer or teacher and decided to study natural sciences.

Reinhard Süring

He studied natural sciences and mathematics at Göttingen, Marburg and Berlin, obtaining his doctorate in 1890 with a thesis titled Temperaturabnahme in Gebirgsgegenden in ihrer Abhängigkeit von der Bewölkung.

Tim Hunt

In 1961 he was accepted into Clare College, Cambridge to study Natural Sciences, graduating in 1964 and immediately beginning work in the university Department of Biochemistry under Asher Korner, working with scientists such as Louis Reichardt and Tony Hunter.


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Alexander Chekhov

He later graduated from the Natural Sciences Department of the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow State University.

Andrzej Waksmundzki

Dr. Waksmundzki organized the Chair of Physical Chemistry in the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, he was appointed Professor Extraordinarius in 1950 and Professor Ordinarius ten years later.

Ariel Fenster

Among them are the 1989 "Catalyst Award for Excellence in Chemistry Teaching" by the United States Chemical Manufacturers Association, the 1992 inaugural "McNeil Medal for the Public Awareness of Science" from the Royal Society of Canada, the 1999 Raymond Gervais Award for Exceptional Contribution to Science Education given by the Quebec Association of Science Teachers, and the 2005 Michael Smith Award for the Promotion of Science by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada.

Associated Universities, Inc.

ALMA is funded in East Asia by the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) of Japan in cooperation with the Academia Sinica (AS) in Taiwan, in Europe by the European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO) and in North America by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) in cooperation with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and the National Science Council of Taiwan (NSC).

Cégep de Sainte-Foy

The Natural Sciences program is one of the main pre-university programs at Cegep de Sainte-Foy.

Cultural movement

Beginning in the early 17th century with Cartesian thought (see René Descartes), this movement provided philosophical frameworks for the natural sciences, sought to determine the principles of knowledge by rejecting all things previously believed to be known about the world.

Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu

In 1795, having lost his fortune in the revolution, De Dolomieu accepted the position of Professor of Natural Sciences at the École Centrale Paris and started to write the mineralogical section of the Encyclopédie Méthodique.

Destutt de Tracy

Under the Reign of Terror, he was arrested and imprisoned for nearly a year, during which he studied Condillac and Locke, and abandoned the natural sciences for philosophy.

Doron Mendels

Among the disciplines connected to memory, articles represented the disciplines of law (Nili Cohen), the brain (from the natural sciences: Idan Segev and Hermona Soreq), anthropology (Yoram Bilu and Moshe Shoked), psychology (Amiya Leiblich and Yonatan Slavin), Hebrew literature (Dan Laor), Israeli society and the holocaust (Arye Edrei) and philosophy (Jeffrey Barash).

Edmund Knoll-Kownacki

After his matura exam in 1908 in Kaluga, he continued his education at the Department of Natural Sciences of the Moscow State University.

Fritz Zweigelt

He was educated there, and in 1911 received a PhD in natural sciences from the University of Graz.

Gediminas Motuza

He is currently professor in the Faculty of the Natural Sciences at Vilnius University and honorary professor of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Grey-faced sengi

This new species was first seen when caught on film in 2005 by Francesco Rovero of the Museum of Natural Sciences in Trento, Italy, who set up camera traps and captured an unfamiliar elephant shrew.

He Zuoxiu

In 1987, He published an article claiming Marxist philosophy should guide the research and development of natural sciences.

Helen Weaver

Her father, Warren Weaver, was a distinguished scientist, author, and world traveler who was Director of Natural Sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation for twenty-seven years.

Historical Institute of Terceira

The creation of the Institute was led by Luís Ribeiro and José Agostinho, both public educators with vocations in ethnography, history and natural sciences, and who were influenced by the Instituto de Coimbra, as well as other Portuguese and international societies.

International Association of People-Environment Studies

People-environment studies, originating from environmental psychology (Lewin, Barker, Brunswik), have always tried to close the “mind gaps” between natural sciences, engineering, arts, and social sciences by an epistemological approach that encompasses denotations (objects and techniques) as well as connotations (subjective social, cultural meanings).

Ioannis Liritzis

Ioannis Liritzis (Greek: Ιωάννης Λυριτζής; born 2 November 1953 in Delphi) is professor of physics in archaeology (archaeometry) and his field of specialization is the application of natural sciences to archaeology and cultural heritage.

Johann Julius Hecker

After completing the gymnasium in Essen, he studied theology, ancient languages, medicine, and natural sciences at the University of Halle.

Johanna Mikl-Leitner

She then continued her education at the grammar school / high school specializing in natural sciences (Realgymnasium) in Laa an der Thaya.

José Luis Fernández Alonso

From 1991 to 2009, he was a professor and research officer at the Institute of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Science at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá, training new biologists in the field of vegetable taxonomy and Colombian flora.

Karin Reich

From 1967 to 1973 she was a scientific assistant at the Research Institute of the Deutsches Museum in Munich and the Institute for the History of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, where in 1973 she and Helmuth Gericke graduated.

Kjartan Ólafsson

A native of Reykjavík, Kjartan Ólafsson spent from 1976 to 1989 studying music, composition and natural sciences at the Music College of Kópavogur, Hamrahliðar College, Reykjavík College of Music, Utrecht Conservatory and Sibelius Academy.

Ludwig Meyn

After the move to Kiel in 1840, he started a degree in natural sciences in Berlin, where he also assisted the chemist Richard Felix Marchand.

Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal

Agreements for academic collaborations in the natural sciences have been signed with GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.

Maurice Wilkins

He studied physics, within the Natural Sciences Tripos, and received a B.A. Mark Oliphant who was one of Wilkin's tutors at St. John's had been appointed to the Chair of Physics at the University of Birmingham, and had appointed John Randall to his staff.

Moshe Sneh

Sneh attended high school in Poland before studying natural sciences, mathematics and medicine at the University of Warsaw, gaining an MD in 1935.

Oswaldo Baca

In 1929 he joined the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Physics and Mathematics at the National University of San Antonio Abad in Cuzco and graduated as a Bachelor of Science in June 1933 .

Recurve-billed Bushbird

The birds were subsequently studied in detail by Laverde, F. Gary Stiles and ornithology students of the Natural Sciences Institute of the National University of Colombia.

Robert Hutton

The Goldsmiths’ Company had generously provided funds for a small laboratory and endowed a chair, but it was Hutton who first persuaded the university to introduce metallurgy into Part II of the Natural Sciences Tripos and later Part I.

Sarah Bridle

Prof Bridle received a first class Masters in Natural Sciences from University of Cambridge in 1997.

Schahan Berberian

The first job of the fifteen-year-old young man was to teach literature and natural sciences at his alma mater but in 1908, he left for Paris where he studied at the Sorbonne and the Collège de France, taking classes in philosophy and metaphysics with Henri Bergson, psychology with Georges Dumas and sociology with Émile Durkheim, thus receiving a thorough education in the liberal arts and obtaining a diploma to teach philosophy.

Serge Daan

From 2001 to 2004 he was vice-dean for research at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the University of Groningen, and together with dean D.A. Wiersma was responsible for incisive changes such as the tenure track system and the Rosalind Franklin fellowships for women.

Tibor Šalát

Originally from Žitava by the southern region of Slovakia, he studied at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Charles University in Prague.

Tony Angell

Robert McCracken Peck, Author and Fellow of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.

University College, Oxford

It was due to the college's lack of a mathematics fellow (this is no longer the case) that Professor Stephen Hawking read a natural sciences degree and ended up specialising in physics.

University of Stirling School of Natural Sciences

The University of Stirling School of Natural Sciences is one of eight schools of the University of Stirling, a university near the City of Stirling, Scotland.

Vilhelm Evang

Evang finished his examen artium in 1927, and started studying natural sciences at the University of Oslo.

Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau

In 1790 Tilesius began studies of natural sciences and medicine at the University of Leipzig, and at the same time took drawing lessons from Adam Friedrich Oeser at the art academy in the Pleissenburg.

William Arnold Anthony

From 1860 to 1861 he taught natural sciences at the Providence Conference Seminary, East Greenwich, Rhode Island, followed by a teaching position in Franklin, New York until 1867.

William of Auxerre

In 1231, he was made a member of the commission appointed by Gregory IX to examine Aristotle's writings on the natural sciences and to offer amendments where religiously necessary.

Wynn Normington Hugh-Jones

He was educated at Ludlow Grammar School and went up to Selwyn College, Cambridge in 1941 where he got his degree in natural sciences in just two years.

Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B

The Zeitschrift für Naturforschung (English: Journal for Nature Research) was established in 1946 by the Max Planck Institute and the physical sciences (Part A) were separated from the other natural sciences (Part B) from 1947.