2023-03-02T14:54:00
Evangelist Greg Downes shares his personal reflections on his friend, the scientist and apologist Professor Thomas Charles Buckland McLeish, who died on 27th February
I’ve just heard that my friend Tom McLeish has died (after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in August) and I’ve been crying and in a state of shock. Tom was one of the most distinguished theoretical physicists of our day (FRC, FRSC, FlinstP) and was Professor of Physics and a Pro-Vice Chancellor at Durham University before moving to the University of York to be Professor of Natural Philosophy.
He was, more importantly than all of these things, a committed disciple of Jesus Christ…. (Register to read the rest of the aritcle)
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