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Hewish also wrote in his introduction to John Polkinghorne's 2009 Questions of Truth, "The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is non-intuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in God, and Christian belief ... may seem strange to common-sense thinking. But when the most elementary physical things behave in this way, we should be prepared to accept that the deepest aspects of our existence go beyond our common-sense understanding."
Paul Farmer (1959–2022): American medical anthropologist, physician and proponent of liberation theology. He was co-founder of Partners In Health, the Kolokotrones University Professor at Harvard University and Chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Lindon Eaves (1944–2022): British behavioral geneticist who published on topics as diverse as the heritability of religion and psychopathology. In 1996, he and Kenneth Kendler founded the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he was professor emeritus and engaged in research and training. Andrew Wyllie (1944–2022): Scottish pathologist who discovered the significance of natural cell death, later naming the process apoptosis. Prior to retirement, he was head of the Department of Pathology at the University of Cambridge. Russell Stannard (1931–2022): British particle physicist who has written several books on the relationship between religion and science, such as Science and the Renewal of Belief, Grounds for Reasonable Belief and Doing It With God?. Raymond Vahan Damadian (1936–2022): young-earth creationist, medical practitioner and inventor who created the MRI (Magnetic Resonance Scanning Machine). Tom McLeish (1962–2023): theoretical physicist whose work is renowned for increasing our understanding of the properties of soft matter. He was professor in the Durham University Department of Physics and director of the Durham Centre for Soft Matter. He is now the first chair of natural philosophy at the University of York. John White (chemist) (1937–2023): Australian chemist who was Professor of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Research School of Chemistry, at the Australian National University. He was a past president, Royal Australian Chemical Institute and president of Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering. John B. Goodenough (1922–2023): American materials scientist, a solid-state physicist, and a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry. He was a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at the University of Texas at Austin. He is widely credited with the identification and development of the lithium-ion battery. Fred Brooks (1931–2022): American computer architect, software engineer, and computer scientist, best known for managing the development of IBM's System/360 family of computers and the OS/360 software support package, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month. Brooks has received many awards, including the National Medal of Technology in 1985 and the Turing Award in 1999. Brooks was an evangelical Christian who was active with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and chaired the executive committee for the Central Carolina Billy Graham Crusade in 1973. Owen Gingerich (1930–2023): Mennonite astronomer who went to Goshen College and Harvard. He was professor emeritus of Astronomy and of the History of Science at Harvard University and Senior Astronomer Emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Gingerich wrote about people of faith in science history. Charles W. Misner (1932–2023): American physicist and one of the authors of Gravitation. His work provided early foundations for studies of quantum gravity and numerical relativity. He was professor emeritus of Physics at the University of Maryland. Frank Haig (1928–2024): American physics professor
Wolfgang Smith (1930–2024): mathematician, physicist, philosopher of science, metaphysician, Roman Catholic and member of the Traditionalist School. He wrote extensively in the field of differential geometry, as a critic of scientism and as a proponent of a new interpretation of quantum mechanics that draws heavily from medieval ontology and realism.

== Currently living ==