Deceased Inductee

deceased inductee to CSHF

Sir William Ramsay

Sir William Mitchell Ramsay (1851 -1939) was among the greatest of all archeologists. A liberal in theology as a result of his university studies, he was converted to true Biblical Christianity as a result of his own uniquely extensive archeological discoveries in Asia Minor, which confirmed fully the historical statements in the book of Acts especially. He was author of over 20 books, most of which were written to provide archeological support and illumination for the New Testament. He also served as professor at Oxford and Aberdeen Universities. Excerpted from Men of Science, Men of God by Henry M. Morris. Copyright 1982, 1988 by Henry M. Morris.

Edward W. Maunder

Edward W. Maunder. Photo: Hector MacphersonEdward Walter Maunder (1851-1928) was a prominent British astronomer who was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, as well as founder and president of the British Astronomical Association.

James Glaisher

James GlaisherJames Glaisher (1809 -1903) was for 34 years superintendent of the department of meteorology and magnetism at the Greenwich Observatory, publishing his standard dew-point tables which are still in use. He established the British Meteorological Society in 1850 and the Aeronautical Society in 1866.

John Murray

John Murray (1808 -1892), though not a scientist himself, was the head of the most important publishing firm in England, responsible for the publication of many scientific books, most notably those of Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin. He also wrote many books himself, including at least one (Skepticism in Geology) vigorously and effectively refuting Lyell's uniformitarianism.

Excerpted from Men of Science, Men of God

Peter Guthrie Tait

P. G. TaitPeter Guthrie Tait (1831 -1901) was a Scottish physicist and mathematician who laid the foundation for vector analysis and other techniques of advanced mathematics and mathematical physics.

Balfour Stewart

Balfour StewartBalfour Stewart (1828 -1887) was a Scottish physicist who saw no conflict between the facts of science and the fundamentals of Christianity, expressing this conviction in a number of popular writings.

Sir William Huggins

Sir William Huggins. Portrait: John Collier.Sir William Huggins (1824 -1910) was well known as both an openly confessed Christian and a brilliant astronomer. He was the first to demonstrate from spectral studies that stars were comprised mostly of hydrogen, along with smaller amounts of the same elements existing on Earth.

Thomas Anderson

Thomas AndersonThomas Anderson (1819 -1874) was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a prominent Scotch chemist, discoverer of pyridine and other organic bases. As Regius Professor of Chemistry at Glasgow, he also edited the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. He was one of the signatories of the Scientists' Declaration of 1864, affirming his faith in the scientific accuracy of the Bible and the validity of the Christian faith.

Joseph Henry Gilbert

Sir Joseph Henry GilbertSir Joseph Henry Gilbert (1817 -1901) was one of the prominent Fellows of the Royal Society who signed the Scientist's Declaration, affirming his faith in the Bible as the Word of God and opposing Darwinist materialism.

Henry Rawlinson

Sir Henry Rawlinson. Drawing: Henry Wyndham PhillipsMaj. Gen. Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, First Baronet (1810 -1895) was one of the greatest archeologists, as well as a devoted Christian and Bible student.

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