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1873

Alexis Carrel was born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon (France). A French biologist and surgeon, he won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1912. Originally critical, as a scientist, of religion, he had a striking conversion. During a famous pilgrimage to Lourdes (France), which he took in order to scientifically dismantle the numerous famed healings that had occurred there, he was himself a part of an extraordinary experience, which he documented. Right under his eyes, an ill person was healed in a manner he found scientifically inexplicable. He described the experience in his book The Voyage to Lourdes (New York: Harper, 1950).
 

1912

 Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker was born in Kiel. A professor of theoretical physics at the Universities of Berlin, Göttingen, and Strasbourg, he undertook philosophy studies and was later a professor in Hamburg. He authored works on the unity of knowledge and on the humanistic and existential dimensions of science, among them Die Einheit der Natur (1971) and Der Mensch in seiner Geschichte (1991).

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On the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology


Readings on Quantum Mechanics: An Introduction, by Gabiele Coci

Matter and Light. The New Physics (1937), by Louis de Broglie

The Meaning of Beauty in Exact Natural Science (1970), by Werner Heisenberg

Quantum Mechanics (2002), by John Polkinghorne, from INTERS 

Faith and Quantum Theory (2007), by Stephen Barr

Quantum Mechanics. Philosophical and Theological Implications (2019), by Javier Sánchez Cañizares, from INTERS


Articles of Historical Interest

Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete? (1935), by A. Einstein, B. Podolski, N. Rosen

On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen Paradox (1964), by J.S. Bell

Experimental Realization of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm Gedankenexperiment: A New Violation of Bell's Inequalities (1982), by A. Aspect, P. Grangier and G. Roger

Moreover…

Pursuing Scientific Humanism. Letters Between Werner Heisenberg and Enrico Cantore, 1967-1976, a forthcoming book edited by Claudio Tagliapietra, INTERS staff

    

Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Religion and Science

The Encyclopedia, published by the Centro di Documentazione Interdisciplinare di Scienza e Fede operating at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, provides new, scholarly articles in the rapidly growing international field of Religion and Science (ISSN: 2037-2329). INTERS is a free online encyclopedia.

Anthology and Documents

To emphasize and spread relevant documents within the scientific community, this section provides key materials concerning the dialogue among science, philosophy and theology.

   

Special Issues

We offer here a selection of comments and documents on special issues in Religion and Science, collected for anniversaries and/or for the relevance of the topics.