The Montfort Academy

Physicist, Philosopher, and Theologian

Father Jaki, a Hungarian-born Catholic priest of the Benedictine Order, is Distinguished University Professor at Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey. With doctorates in theology and physics, he has for the past forty years specialized in the history and philosophy of science. He is the author of almost forty books and over a hundred articles, and he served as Gifford Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) and as Fremantle Lecturer at Balliol College, Oxford (England). He has lectured at major universities in the United States, Europe, and Australia. He is honorary member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (Rome), membre correspondant of the Acad�mie Nationale des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts (Bordeaux), and the recipient of the Lecomte du Nouy Prize for 1970 and of the Templeton Prize for 1987. Father Jaki Addressing the Audience at The Montfort Academy