The Oxford Leadership Prize

John C Lennox MA MA(Bioethics) DPhil PhD DSc.

Fellow, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford

John Lennox is Reader in Mathematics in the University of Oxford, Fellow in Mathematics and the Philosophy of Science at Green College. He studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University and was subsequently Reader in Pure Mathematics in the University of Wales at Cardiff. He has been a Senior Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Universities of Wuerzburg and Freiburg in Germany. He has published over 70 articles in Algebra (Group Theory) and co-authored two research monographs in the Oxford Mathematical Monographs series - The Theory of Subnormal Subgroups" (with S.E. Stonehewer) 1987 and "The Theory of Infinite Soluble Groups" (with D.J.S. Robinson) 2004. He is involved in teaching in the Faculties of Physical Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Theology at Oxford and is particularly interested in the interface between science, philosophy and theology with special emphasis on the relationship between science and ethics. He has made many visits to Eastern Europe and to the countries of the former Soviet Union to discuss and lecture on these topics. His most recent book is God's Undertaker: Has science buried God? Lion-Hudson 2007.

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