Stephen Ronald Quake (born 1969) is an American scientist, inventor and entrepreneur.
 He earned his B.S. in Physics and M.S. in Mathematics from Stanford in 1991 and his D.Phil.
 in Physics from Oxford University in 1994 as a Marshall Scholar.
 His thesis research was in statistical mechanics and the effects of knots on polymers.
 He did his postdoctoral work at Stanford in single molecule biophysics with Steven Chu.
 Quake joined the faculty of the California Institute of Technology at the age of 26, where he rose through the ranks and was ultimately appointed the Thomas and Doris Everhart Professor of Applied Physics and Physics.
 He moved back to Stanford University in 2005 to help launch a new department in Bioengineering, where he is now the Lee Otterson Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Sean Michael Carroll ( ; born October 5, 1966) is a cosmologist and physics professor specializing in dark energy and general relativity.
 He is a research professor in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology.
 He has been a contributor to the physics blog Cosmic Variance, and has published in scientific journals and magazines such as "Nature", "The New York Times", "Sky & Telescope", and "New Scientist".
Spiritual Naturalism, or Naturalistic Spirituality, is the umbrella term for a variety of philosophical and religious worldviews that try to synthesize mundane and spiritual ways of looking at the world.
 Book searches for the two find no usage for Naturalistic Spirituality before 1956 whereas Spiritual Naturalism may have first been proposed by Joris-Karl Huysmans in 1895 in his book "En Route" - "“In 'En Route' Huysmans started upon the creation of what he called ‘Spiritual Naturalism,’ that is, realism applied to the story of a soul.
 ...”".
Alexei Vladimir "Alex" Filippenko ( ; born July 25, 1958) is an American astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley.
 Filippenko graduated from Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California.
 He received a Bachelor of Arts in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1979 and a Ph.D. in astronomy from the California Institute of Technology in 1984, where he was a Hertz Foundation Fellow.
 He was a Miller Fellow at UC Berkeley and was subsequently appointed to a faculty position at the same institution.
 He was later named a Miller Research Professor for Spring 1996 and Spring 2005.
 His research focuses on supernovae and active galaxies at optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared wavelengths.
Norbert Schwarz is Provost Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California and a co-director of the USC Dornsife Mind and Society Center.
 He received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Mannheim, Germany (1980) and a "Habilitation" in psychology from the University of Heidelberg, Germany (1986).
 Schwarz taught at the University of Heidelberg from 1981 to 1992 and served as Scientific Director of ZUMA, now , an interdisciplinary social science research center(1987–1992).
 From 1993 to 2013, he worked at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he held appointments as the Charles Horton Cooley Collegiate Professor of Psychology in the Social Psychology program, Professor of Marketing at the Ross School of Business, Research Professor in the Program in Survey Methodology, and Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research.
 He was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (2000/01; 2009/10) and held visiting positions at universities in Europe (e.g., University of Wurzburg, Germany) and Asia (e.g., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology).
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion (LPR; German: "Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Religion" , VPR) outlines his ideas on Christianity as a form of self-consciousness.
 They represent the final and in some ways the decisive element of his philosophical system.
 In light of his distinctive philosophical approach, using a method that is dialectical and historical, Hegel offers a radical reinterpretation of the meaning of Christianity and its characteristic doctrines.
 The approach taken in these lectures is to some extent prefigured in Hegel's first published book, "The Phenomenology of Spirit" (1807).
James P. Crutchfield (born 1955) is an American mathematician and physicist.
 He received his B.A. summa cum laude in Physics and Mathematics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1979 and his Ph.D. in Physics there in 1983.
 He is currently a Professor of Physics at the University of California, Davis, where he is Director of the Complexity Sciences Center---a new research and graduate program in complex systems.
 Prior to this, he was Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute for many years, where he ran the Dynamics of Learning Group and SFI's Network Dynamics Program.
 From 1985 to 1997, he was a Research Physicist in the Physics Department at the University of California, Berkeley.
 He has been a Visiting Research Professor at the Sloan Center for Theoretical Neurobiology, University of California, San Francisco; a Post-doctoral Fellow of the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science at UCB; a UCB Physics Department IBM Post-Doctoral Fellow in Condensed Matter Physics; a Distinguished Visiting Research Professor of the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; and a Bernard Osher Fellow at the San Francisco Exploratorium.
Danqun Fang (Born in Dec. 1941) is an overseas Chinese-American expert committed to Noise Control Engineering, Environmental Physics and Biophysical Informatics.
 Awarded with a number of national and international awards, he is the main founder and pioneer of the three subjects above.
 Currently, he is the President and Research Professor of US Sound and Vibration Institute (US), President and Research Professor of America Frontier Science Institute, President and Principal Scientist of the Micro Bio-Physic Laboratory (US), President and Research Professor of American Western Academy of Environmental Sciences, Chief adviser of State Environmental Protection Engineering Center for City Noise and Vibration (China), Chief advisor of China Association of Environmental Protection Industry – Noise and Vibration, Visiting Professor of Zhejiang University, and Founder & Convener of Global Chinese scientists Environmental Forum.
William Andrew Goddard III (born March 29, 1937 in El Centro, California, U.S.) is the Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry and Applied Physics, and Director, Materials and Process Simulation Center at the California Institute of Technology.
 He obtained his B.S. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1960 and his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology, 1965.
 After his Ph.D. he remained at the California Institute of Technology as Arthur Amos Noyes Research Fellow (1964–66), Professor of Theoretical Chemistry (1967–78) and Professor of Chemistry & Applied Physics (1978-).
Poetic naturalism is a philosophical approach to naturalism which encourages a variety of ways to talk about the world, using language dependent upon the aspect of reality being discussed.
 The term was coined by Sean M. Carroll in his book "The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself" to offer richer insight into naturalism, with strategies for agreeing on useful ways of talking about the natural world.
 It acknowledges that the methods and terms used within one domain may not be coherent with those of another domain, yet both can be considered valid representations of reality.

Question: Which research professor in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology coined the term for a philosophical approach to naturalism which encourages a variety of ways to talk about the world?
Answer: Sean M. Carroll