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Making
Sense of Faith & Science:
The Theological Roots of Modern Science
H. Fritz Schaefer
Dr. H.
Fritz Schaefer, Professor of Chemistry, University of Georgia, confronts
the assertion that one cannot believe in God and be a credible scientist.
He explains that the theistic worldview of Bacon, Kepler, Pascal, Boyle,
Newton, Faraday, and Maxwell was instrumental in the rise of modern science
itself.
Over the years, Dr. Schaefer has been invited to present plenary lectures
at more than 150 national or international scientific conferences. He has
delivered endowed or named lectures or lecture series at more than thirty
major universities, including the 1998 Kenneth S. Pitzer Memorial Lecture
at Berkeley and the 2001 Israel Pollak Distinguished Lectures at the Technion
- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. He is the recipient of eight honorary
degrees, Editor-in-Chief of the London-based journal Molecular Physics,
and President of the World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists.
His service to the chemical community includes the chairmanship of the American
Chemical Society's Subdivision of Theoretical Chemistry (1982) and Division
of Physical Chemistry (1992).
His major awards include
the American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry (1979, "for the development
of computational quantum chemistry into a reliable quantitative field of
chemistry and for prolific exemplary calculations of broad chemical interest"),
the American Chemical Society Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award (1983, "for his
contributions to computational quantum chemistry and for outstanding applications
of this technique to a wide range of chemical problems"), the Schroedinger
Medal (1990), and the Centenary Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry
(London, 1992, as "the first theoretical chemist successfully to challenge
the accepted conclusions of a distinguished experimental group for a polyatomic
molecule, namely methylene").
During the comprehensive period of 1981 - 1997 Dr. Schaefer was the sixth
most highly cited chemist in the world; out of a total of 628,000 chemists
whose research was cited. The Science Citation Index reports that
by December 31, 1999, his research had been cited more than 30,000 times.
The U.S. News and World Report cover story of December 23, 1991
speculated that Professor Schaefer is a "five-time nominee for the Nobel
Prize." His research involves the use of state-of-the-art computational
hardware and theoretical methods to solve important problems in molecular quantum mechanics.
Program recording date and length: 2000 ~ 1 Hour (This study was presented originally at the University of California, Santa Barbara.)
