Richard H. Bube
Encyclopedia
Academic career
Bube received his B.S. in physicsPhysics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
from Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
in 1946, and his M.A. (1948) and Ph.D. (1950) in physics from Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
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He was a researcher at RCA Laboratories in Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton is a community located in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. It is best known as the location of Princeton University, which has been sited in the community since 1756...
from 1948 to 1962. Thereafter he taught at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
where he was an associate professor from 1962 to 1964, when he became professor of materials science
Materials science
Materials science is an interdisciplinary field applying the properties of matter to various areas of science and engineering. This scientific field investigates the relationship between the structure of materials at atomic or molecular scales and their macroscopic properties. It incorporates...
and electrical engineering
Electrical engineering
Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...
. He served as his department's chair from 1975 to 1986, and is now an emeritus
Emeritus
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professor
For over twenty years he also conducted an undergraduate seminar at Stanford University on "Issues in Science and Christianity", until it was cancelled in 1988 by Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
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Professional affiliations
Bube is a member of:- The American Physical SocietyAmerican Physical SocietyThe American Physical Society is the world's second largest organization of physicists, behind the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. The Society publishes more than a dozen scientific journals, including the world renowned Physical Review and Physical Review Letters, and organizes more than 20...
(fellow) - The American Association for the Advancement of ScienceAmerican Association for the Advancement of ScienceThe American Association for the Advancement of Science is an international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the...
(fellow) - The American Society for Engineering EducationAmerican Society for Engineering EducationThe American Society for Engineering Education is a non-profit member association, founded in 1893, dedicated to promoting and improving engineering and engineering technology education....
- The American Scientific AffiliationAmerican Scientific AffiliationThe American Scientific Affiliation is a Christian religious organization of scientists and people in science-related disciplines. The stated purpose is "to investigate any area relating Christian faith and science." The organization publishes a journal, Perspectives of Science and Christian Faith...
(fellow, member of executive council from 1964 to 1968, vice-president in 1967, president in 1968, editor of its journal from 1969 to 1983, emeritus fellow from 2009)
Defense of theistic evolution
In the 1970s, whilst he was editor of the Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation Bube defended the viewpoint of theistic evolutionTheistic evolution
Theistic evolution or evolutionary creation is a concept that asserts that classical religious teachings about God are compatible with the modern scientific understanding about biological evolution...
in that journal. One such article on this topic would receive in-journal peer-review by Baptist
Baptist
Baptists comprise a group of Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers , and that it must be done by immersion...
theologian Bernard L. Ramm
Bernard Ramm
Bernard L. Ramm was a Baptist theologian and apologist within the broad Evangelical tradition. He wrote prolifically on topics concerned with biblical hermeneutics, religion and science, Christology, and apologetics...
, Canadian historian and Reformed scholar
Reformed churches
The Reformed churches are a group of Protestant denominations characterized by Calvinist doctrines. They are descended from the Swiss Reformation inaugurated by Huldrych Zwingli but developed more coherently by Martin Bucer, Heinrich Bullinger and especially John Calvin...
W. Stanford Reid
W. Stanford Reid
W. Stanford Reid was a professor of history at McGill University and University of Guelph. He held a Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania . He also had a divinity degree from Westminster Theological Seminary, studying under the Presbyterian scholar J. Gresham Machen.-Further reading:*. A....
, Fuller
Fuller Theological Seminary
Fuller Theological Seminary is an accredited Christian educational institute with its main campus in Pasadena, California and several satellite campuses in the western United States...
theologian Paul King Jewett, and Christian apologist Alvin Plantinga
Alvin Plantinga
Alvin Carl Plantinga is an American analytic philosopher and the emeritus John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is known for his work in philosophy of religion, epistemology, metaphysics, and Christian apologetics...
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Personal life
Bube was born in Providence, Rhode IslandProvidence, Rhode Island
Providence is the capital and most populous city of Rhode Island and was one of the first cities established in the United States. Located in Providence County, it is the third largest city in the New England region...
to Edward Ella Neser and Ella (Baltteim) Bube. He married Betty Jane Meeker on October 9, 1948 and they had four children: Mark Timothy, Kenneth Paul, Sharon Elizabeth, Meryl Lee. His son Mark T. Bube is the General Secretary for Foreign Missions of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church
Orthodox Presbyterian Church
The Orthodox Presbyterian Church is a conservative Presbyterian denomination located primarily in the United States. It was founded by conservative members of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America who strongly objected to the pervasive Modernist theology during the 1930s . Led...
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Theology
His views on religion have been discussed by theologian Stanley J. Grenz.Engineering
- Electrons in solids : an introductory survey (1982, 1992), Richard H Bube
- PhotoconductivityPhotoconductivityPhotoconductivity is an optical and electrical phenomenon in which a material becomes more electrically conductive due to the absorption of electromagnetic radiation such as visible light, ultraviolet light, infrared light, or gamma radiation....
of solids (1960, 1978) - Fundamentals of solar cells : photovoltaic solar energy conversion co-authored with Alan L Fahrenbruch(1983)
- Electronic properties of crystalline solids: an introduction to fundamentals (1974)
- Photoelectronic properties of semiconductors by Richard H Bube (1992)
- Photovoltaic materials (1998), ISBN 186094065X
- Photoinduced defects in semiconductors co-authored with David Redfield (1996)
- Annual review of materials science (1971-onward)
Religion and science works
- Putting it all Together: Seven Patterns for Relating Science and the Christian faith. University Press of AmericaUniversity Press of AmericaUniversity Press of America is an academic book publisher based in the United States. Part of the independent Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, it was founded in 1975 and boasts of having published "more than 10,000 academic, scholarly, and biographical titles in many disciplines"...
, 1995. ISBN 0819197556. - The Encounter between Christianity and Science (1968)
- The Human Quest: a New Look at Science and the Christian Faith (1971, 1976)
- To Every Man an Answer: a Systematic study of the Scriptural basis of Christian Doctrine (1955)
- One Whole Life. (self-published autobiography). 530 pages. 1995.
Book chapters
- "Man in the Context of Evolutionary Theory". Horizons of science : Christian scholars speak out. Ed. Carl F. H. HenryCarl F. H. HenryCarl Ferdinand Howard Henry was an American evangelical Christian theologian who served as the first editor-in-chief of the magazine Christianity Today, established to serve as a scholarly voice for evangelical Christianity and a challenge to the liberal Christian Century.-Early Years and...
. Harper & Row, 1978. ISBN 0060638664. - "Scientist as Believer". Expanding humanity's vision of God : new thoughts on science and religion. Ed. Robert L. Herrmann. Templeton Foundation Press, 2001. ISBN 1890151505.
- "Postscript: Final Reflections on the Dialogue". Summaries by Richard H. Bube and Phillip E. JohnsonPhillip E. JohnsonPhillip E. Johnson is a retired UC Berkeley law professor and author. He became a born-again Christian while a tenured professor and is considered the father of the intelligent design movement...
. Three Views on Creation and Evolution. pp. 249–266. Zondervan, 1999. ISBN 0310220173.
External links
- Faculty page on Stanford UniversityStanford UniversityThe Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
websiteWebsiteA website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet... - Bube's Worldcat identity
- "Censorship in Academia: The Professor of Richard H. Bube Case" in Contra-Mundum, Fall 1993, Volume 9. pp. 42–44. (pdf pages: 44-46).
- List of JASA articles
- "PATTERNS FOR RELATING SCIENCE AND FAITH" (Findings of Putting it All Together, Richard H. Bube, Univ. Press of America (1995).)
- "Claims Based on the Authority of Science and How to Assess Them". Richard H. Bube. Newsletter of the ASA.