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'''William Grosvenor Pollard''' (1911&mdash;1989) was a [[physicist]] and [[priest]]. He started his career as a professor of physics in 1936 at [[University of Tennessee]].  In 1946 he championed the organization of the the [[Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies]] (ORINS). He was its executive director until 1974. He was ordained as a priest in 1954. He authored and co-authored a significant number of books. He was sometimes referred to as the "atomic deacon."<ref>*"[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,815003,00.html Atomic Deacon]", [[Time magazine]] article, Monday, June 18, 1951</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?tab=sp&sa=N&hl=en&q=%22atomic+deacon%22&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N Biography Index H.W. Wilson Company] Bea Joseph, SilverPlatter International, [[H.W. Wilson Company]], 1953, p.778</ref> In 1974 [[Phillip L. Johnson]] succeeded Pollard as the [[executive director]] of [[Oak Ridge Associated Universities]].<ref>[http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40A13FA3A5F107A93C1AB178DD85F408785F9&scp=22&sq=%22William%20G.%20Pollard%22&st=cse "Oak Ridge Post Filled"], June 23, 1974, Sunday, [[New York Times]], Section: GN, Page 22, 79 words</ref>
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'''William Grosvenor Pollard''' (1911&mdash;1989) was a [[physicist]] and [[priest]]. He started his career as a professor of physics in 1936 at [[University of Tennessee]].  In 1946 he championed the organization of the [[Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies]] (ORINS). He was its executive director until 1974. He was ordained as a priest in 1954. He authored and co-authored a significant number of books. He was sometimes referred to as the "atomic deacon."<ref>*"[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,815003,00.html Atomic Deacon]", [[Time magazine]] article, Monday, June 18, 1951</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?tab=sp&sa=N&hl=en&q=%22atomic+deacon%22&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N Biography Index H.W. Wilson Company] Bea Joseph, SilverPlatter International, [[H.W. Wilson Company]], 1953, p.778</ref> In 1974 [[Phillip L. Johnson]] succeeded Pollard as the [[executive director]] of [[Oak Ridge Associated Universities]].<ref>[http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40A13FA3A5F107A93C1AB178DD85F408785F9&scp=22&sq=%22William%20G.%20Pollard%22&st=cse "Oak Ridge Post Filled"], June 23, 1974, Sunday, [[New York Times]], Section: GN, Page 22, 79 words</ref>
    
==Life==
 
==Life==
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===Continuing influence===
 
===Continuing influence===
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The book ''The Frontiers of Science & Faith: Examining Questions from the Big Bang to the End of the Universe'' (2002) credits Pollard in making important contributions to a significant train of thought on religion and [[quantum indeterminacy]] that has led to futher ideas about religion and [[chaos theory]].<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=fsJ0XJIQ2iwC ''The Frontiers of Science & Faith''], John Jefferson Davis, Published by InterVarsity Press, 2002, ISBN 0830826645, 199 pages, pp. 39, 78-79</ref> Chapter 5 of [[Divine Action and Modern Science]] ([[Cambridge University Press]], 2002) is divided into three sections: "Pre-Pollard quantum SDA", "William Pollard", and "Post-Pollard quantum SDA".
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The book ''The Frontiers of Science & Faith: Examining Questions from the Big Bang to the End of the Universe'' (2002) credits Pollard in making important contributions to a significant train of thought on religion and [[quantum indeterminacy]] that has led to further ideas about religion and [[chaos theory]].<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=fsJ0XJIQ2iwC ''The Frontiers of Science & Faith''], John Jefferson Davis, Published by InterVarsity Press, 2002, ISBN 0830826645, 199 pages, pp. 39, 78-79</ref> Chapter 5 of [[Divine Action and Modern Science]] ([[Cambridge University Press]], 2002) is divided into three sections: "Pre-Pollard quantum SDA", "William Pollard", and "Post-Pollard quantum SDA".
    
==Fiftieth anniversary of Kent School==
 
==Fiftieth anniversary of Kent School==
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