Stanley Jaki
Stanley L. Jaki, OSB (actually Szaniszló László Jaki; born August 17, 1924 in Győr, † April 7, 2009 in Madrid, Spain) was a Hungarian Roman Catholic religious priest, physicist and philosopher of science.
Living and studying
Jaki came after high school in the Benedictine Order. He received his doctorate in 1950 in Systematic Theology at the Pontifical Athenaeum of Saint Anselm in Rome. In 1957 he was in physics at Fordham University, where he received his doctorate at Viktor Hess, the co-discoverer of cosmic radiation and Nobel laureate. He conducted research in the field of philosophy of science at Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley and Princeton University and at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Since 1976, he taught physics at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. Jaki died as a result of myocardial infarction. In addition, he served as Gifford Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and Fremantle Lecturer at Balliol College, Oxford.
Work
Jaki wrote over fifty books and over 400 articles, in particular, several books on the relationship between science and Christianity, in particular on the history and philosophy of science.
Jaki argued that Gödel's incompleteness theorem of have a relevance to a ( yet to be developed ) world formula.
Honors and Awards (selection)
- Honorary Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
- Corresponding Member of the Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et arts de Bordeaux
- Lecomte du Nouy Prix (1970 )
- Templeton Prize (1987 )
- Honorary degrees from Central Michigan University (1974 ), Steubenville University ( 1986), St. Anselm College ( 1988), Marquette University (1989 ), St. Vincent College ( 1989), Fordham University ( 1991), Seton Hall University (1991 )
- Honorary citizen of Győr