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Keith Ward
Regius Professor at Oxford University, his most notable contribution to the relation of God and science is God, Chance and Necessity.

Steven Weinberg
Josey Regental Professor of Science at the University of Texas, Austin. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 for his work on the electroweak theory. Works include Gravitation and Cosmology and The First Three Minutes.

John Archibald Wheeler
Quantum physicist who was a student of Niels Bohr. He coined the terms "black hole" and "it from bit".

Alfred North Whitehead
(1861-1947) British philosopher and mathematician, he is well-known both for the Principia Mathematica that he co-authored with Bertrand Russell and Process and Reality, a work that laid the foundations for process philosophy and theology. In the latter work, he replaces the traditional idea of "substance" with "process". His concept of a god who is in a "process" state has been trenchantly criticized by some contemporary theistic philosophers.

Eugene Wigner
Winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physics who made contributions to many areas of modern physics.

Robert Wilson
Co-discoverer with Arno Penzias of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physics.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
(1889-1951) A dominant figure in twentieth century philosophy, he is best known for two books, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations. The first book was the main vehicle of the movement called Logical Positivism while the second sealed its fate. Although he was initially sympathetic to the ideas that the only valid approach to knowledge was the scientific one and that only scientific statements were meaningful, Wittgenstein gradually came to see that the scientific method could not be viewed as the test of truth in every field of human knowledge. He articulated this insight in his famous theory of language-games.