1. George Coyne was born in Baltimore on January 19,1933, the third of eight siblings.
23 Facts About George Coyne
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George Coyne entered the Jesuit novitiate in Wernersville, Pennsylvania, after attending Loyola High School in Blakefield, Maryland, on scholarship and graduating in 1951.
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George Coyne earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics and his licentiate in philosophy at Fordham University in 1958.
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George Coyne carried out a spectrophotometric study of the lunar surface to obtain his doctorate in astronomy from Georgetown University in 1962.
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George Coyne spent the summer of 1963 doing research at Harvard University, the summer of 1964 as a National Science Foundation lecturer at the University of Scranton, and the summer of 1965 as visiting research professor at the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.
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George Coyne obtained a licentiate in sacred theology at Woodstock College and was ordained a priest in 1966.
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George Coyne joined the Vatican Observatory as an astronomer in 1969 and became an assistant professor at the LPL in 1970.
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George Coyne spent five months of the year in Tucson as adjunct professor in the University of Arizona Astronomy Department.
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George Coyne recruited young astronomers worldwide and established a program for non-resident adjunct appointments that allowed women to participate.
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George Coyne acted as a firewall between us and the vagaries of the Vatican.
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George Coyne made us welcome and he made our collaborators and visitors welcome.
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George Coyne took on a public role as an expert on the intersection of science and Catholicism.
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George Coyne criticized the Church's lukewarm acceptance of responsibility for its prosecution of Galileo in the early seventeenth century.
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George Coyne was a vocal proponent of the view that a scientific view of evolution in its classic form, including its random nature, is compatible with Catholic teaching.
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George Coyne is not continually intervening, but rather allows, participates, loves.
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From 2007 to 2011 George Coyne directed the Vatican Observatory Foundation.
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George Coyne was an active member of the International Astronomical Union, the American Astronomical Society, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America.
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Funes rejected tabloid speculation that George Coyne's dispute with Schonborn had anything to do with his retirement.
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In retirement, George Coyne discussed that he did not, and other Christians should not, have problems reconciling his faith in Christ with contemporary scientific topics.
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In 2015 George Coyne applauded Pope Francis for discussing the importance of caring for the environment and addressing the need for Christians to tackle the issue of climate change caused by human activity.
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George Coyne described Francis' encyclical Laudato Si' as "probably the most challenging encyclical since the great social encyclicals of Pope Leo XIII and Pope Pius XI in the 19th and early 20th centuries, which discussed the rights and duties of capital and labor".
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George Coyne died of bladder cancer on February 11,2020, at a hospital in Syracuse at the age of 87.
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George Coyne received honorary degrees from St Peter's University, Loyola University Chicago, the University of Padua, the Pontifical Theological Academy of the Jagellonian University, Marquette University, and Boston College.