Zahm, John (Augustine) (1851–1921)

US Catholic priest, science educator, and author. He lectured widely, defending the compatibility between Christian doctrine and evolutionary theory, but his study Evolution and Dogma (1896) was condemned by the Vatican. Born in New Lexington, Ohio, he was a science professor at Notre Dame (1875–92), After serving as US provincial of the Holy Cross Fathers (1898–1906), he travelled in the Western hemisphere – sometimes with Theodore Roosevelt – often recording his observations under the pen-name J H Mozans.