Patrick Thomas Burke (1923 – 30 March 2008) was an Irish Carmelite priest, physicist and school teacher, and co-founder of the
Young Scientist Exhibition.
Burke was born 4 November 1923. He was educated in
Synge Street Christian Brothers School in Dublin. He joined the Carmelites, and studied in
University College Dublin, earning a Degree(1945), Masters(1947) and Doctorate(1949). He studied in
Milltown Park earning a Theology degree and licentiate. Ordained in 1951, he also gained a Higher Diploma in Education in 1953.
Burke taught Mathematics and Physics at
St. Patrick's College, Maynooth
St Patrick's Pontifical University, Maynooth ( ga, Coláiste Naoimh Phádraig, Maigh Nuad), is the "National Seminary for Ireland" (a Roman Catholic college), and a pontifical university, located in the town of Maynooth, from Dublin, Ireland ...
, before teaching Mathematics at
Terenure College in Dublin, where he also served as Prior and Headmaster. He joined the Physics department at UCD.
He co-founded with Dr
Tony Scott his former pupil in
Terenure College the
Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 1965, they came up with the idea while working in New Mexico in 1963. In 2007 they were awarded honorary doctorates by
Dublin Institute of Technology in recognition of their promotion of science.
Burke died on 30 March 2008.
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1923 births
2008 deaths
Alumni of Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy
Alumni of University College Dublin
Irish physicists
20th-century Irish Roman Catholic priests
Irish schoolteachers
Mathematics educators
Physics educators
Carmelites