Ralph Wendell Burhoe
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Ralph Wendell Burhoe, American educator and writer who was both a theologian and a scientist and spent his career attempting to merge those fields; he founded several organizations toward that end, and in 1980 he was the first American to win the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion (b. June 21, 1911--d. May 8, 1997).
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