Tom Burke (priest)

Patrick Thomas Burke (1923 – 30 March 2008) was an Irish Carmelite priest, physicist and school teacher, and co-founder of the Young Scientist Exhibition.

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 co-founded with Dr Tony Scott his former pupil in Terenure College the Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 1965,[3] 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.