Stanley L. Jaki

(1924-2009)

Stanley L. Jaki (Jáki Szaniszló László), a Hungarian-born Catholic priest of the Benedictine Order, was Distinguished 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. The author of over fifty books and over four hundred articles, he served as Gifford Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and as Fremantle Lecturer at Balliol College, Oxford. He lectured at major universities in the United States, Europe, and Australia. He was honorary member of the Pontifical Academy of Science, membre correspondant of the Académie Nationale des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts of Bordeaux, and the recipient of the Lecomte du Noüy Prize for 1970 and of the Templeton Prize for 1987.



NEW - Program of a one day Meeting in Commemoration of Fr. Stanley L. Jaki in Rome on April 13, 2010 (Italian)

Same as above, English version (beware, still a draft)



A commemoration of Stanley L. Jaki by Anne Barbeau Gardiner


“HARCOLJ AZ IGAZSÁGÉRT...”: JÁKI LÁSZLÓ SZANISZLÓ ÉLETMŰVE (commemoration in Hungarian) by László F. Szabó

"Fight for Truth": The Oeuvre of Stanley L. Jaki (shorter English translation of the above) by László F. Szabó


Stanley L. Jaki (commemoration in Italian) by Alessandro Giostra


Circular Letter of the Pontifical Academy of Science announcing the death of Father Jaki

Same as above, Hungarian translation


Publications of Stanley L. Jaki

Curriculum vitae of Stanley L. Jaki

Real View Books

The Real View Books publishing house was founded by Father Jaki to keep in print important works otherwise very difficult to find, and that he felt were worth reading. Each book in the Real View Books series includes an Introduction by Stanley L. Jaki where he carefully sets forth each book's relevance to the Church in the present age. Real View Books also publishes books written by Father Jaki himself.

The books published by Real View Books can be ordered online at the site www.realviewbooks.com

The books of Father Jaki can also be ordered from this downloadable Book Catalog

A site dedicated to Pierre Duhem and Stanley L. Jaki



Text of Stanley L. Jaki papers available on the Internet:

In English:

Jaki on Gödel Theorem (A Late Awakening to Gödel in Physics) (2004_9)

The Catholic Intellectual (2000_15)

Science: From the Womb of Religion (Speech of acceptance of the Templeton Prize) (1987_15)

The Absolute Beneath the Relative: Reflections on Einstein Theories (1985_3)

Address (Speech of acceptance of the Prix Lecomte de Noüy) (1972_2)



In Hungarian:

A tudomány és a vallás kapcsolatának ábécéje (Science and Religion: A Primer) (Shorter version of 2005_14)

Newman és az angyalok (Newman and the Angels) (2002_22)

Nem-darwini darwinizmus (Non-Darwinist Darwinism) (2002_21)



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