Templeton Prize

Templeton Prize

The Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities is a prize given out annually by the Templeton Foundation. Established in 1972, it is awarded to a living person who, in the estimation of the judges, best exemplifies "trying various ways for discoveries and breakthroughs to expand human perceptions of divinity and to help in the acceleration of divine creativity."

The prize is named after Sir John Templeton, an American-born British entrepreneur and businessman, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1987 for his philanthropic efforts. Until 2001 the name of the prize was Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. It has typically been presented by Prince Philip in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.

The monetary value of the prize (795,000 GBP or approx. 1.4 million US dollars in 2006) is adjusted so that it exceeds that of the Nobel Prizes. The prize is, as of 2006, the largest single annual financial prize award given to an individual for intellectual merit.

Prize winners

*1973 - Mother Teresa of Calcutta
*1974 - Frère Roger, founder of the Taizé Community
*1975 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, President of India
*1976 - Leon Joseph Cardinal Suenens
*1977 - Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare Movement
*1978 - Prof. Thomas Torrance
*1979 - Rev. Nikkyo Niwano
*1980 - Ralph Wendell Burhoe, founder of ""
*1981 - Cicely Saunders, hospice founder
*1982 - Rev. Dr. Billy Graham, evangelist
*1983 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Soviet dissident novelist
*1984 - Rev. Michael Bourdeaux, founder of the Keston Institute
*1985 - Alister Hardy, founder of the Religious Experience Research Centre
*1986 - Rev. James I. McCord of the Princeton Theological Seminary
*1987 - Rev. Father Dr. Stanley Jaki
*1988 - Dr. Inamullah Khan
*1989 - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, physicist and philosopher and Lord MacLeod of Fuinary, founder of the Iona Community
*1990 - Baba Amte and Charles Birch
*1991 - Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits
*1992 - Kyung-Chik Han
*1993 - Charles Colson, founder of the Prison Fellowship
*1994 - Michael Novak, philosopher and diplomat
*1995 - Paul Davies, theoretical physicist
*1996 - Dr. Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ
*1997 - Pandurang Shastri Athavale, social reformer, philosopher, and founder of Swadhyay Movement.
*1998 - Sigmund Sternberg, philanthropist
*1999 - Ian Barbour, professor
*2000 - Freeman Dyson, physicist
*2001 - Rev. Arthur Peacocke
*2002 - Rev. John Polkinghorne, physicist and theologian
*2003 - Holmes Rolston III, philosopher
*2004 - George F. R. Ellis, cosmologist and philosopher
*2005 - Charles Townes, Nobel laureate and physicist
*2006 - John D. Barrow, cosmologist and theoretical physicist
*2007 - Charles Taylor, philosopher
*2008 - Prof. Michał Heller, physicist and philosopher

Hindus, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Muslims and Atheists [Baba Amte - http://www.economist.com/obituary/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10757984] have been on the panel of judges and have been recipients of the prize.

Criticism

The prize has been criticized by:
*British biologist and antireligious atheist, Richard Dawkins [Dawkins, 2006] [ [http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/politicsphilosophyandsociety/0,,2223998,00.html Is that all there is? | By genre | Guardian Unlimited Books ] ]
*Sean M. Carroll, a senior research associate in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology, also criticized the prize. [ [http://preposterousuniverse.blogspot.com/2005/04/purity-of-essence.html Preposterous Universe ] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.templeton.org/ Templeton Foundation]
* [http://www.templetonprize.org/ Templeton Prize]
* [http://www.templetonprize.org/bios_recent.html Templeton Prize winners]
* [http://www.templetonpress.org/SirJohn/templetonprize.asp Templeton Prize Winners] from the Templeton Foundation Press Website
* [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/cosmologist-wins-largest-monetary-award-794673.html Cosmologist wins world's largest monetary award]


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