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Templeton Prize

HONOR

Established by investor John Templeton. Awarded by the John Templeton Foundation "for progress toward research or discoveries about spiritual realities", the annual prize is over $1.5M. Originally called the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.

Official Website:
http://www.templetonprize.org/

1973
Mother Teresa  
1974
Brother Roger (founded Taizé Community)
1975
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (President of India)
1976
Leon Joseph Cardinal Suenens  
1977
Chiara Lubich (founded Focolare Movement)
1978
Thomas Torrance  
1979
Rev. Nikkyo Niwano  
1980
Ralph Wendell Burhoe (founded journal Zygon)
1981
Cicely Saunders (hospice founder)
1982
Billy Graham  
1983
Alexander Solzhenitsyn  
1984
Rev. Michael Bourdeaux  
1985
Alister Hardy (founded Religious Experience Research Centre)
1986
Rev. James McCord Princeton Theological Seminary
1987
Stanley Jaki  
1988
Dr. Inamullah Khan  
1989
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Lord MacLeod of Fuinary  
1990
Baba Amte and L. Charles Birch  
1991
Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits  
1992
Kyung-Chik Han  
1993
Chuck Colson  
1994
Michael Novak (philosopher, diplomat)
1995
Paul Davies (physicist)
1996
Bill Bright (founded Campus Crusade for Christ)
1997
Pandurang Shastri Athavale  
1998
Sigmund Sternberg (philanthropist)
1999
Ian Barbour  
2000
Freeman Dyson  
2001
Rev. Arthur Peacocke  
2002
Rev. John Polkinghorne  
2003
Holmes Rolston III  
2004
George Ellis (cosmologist)
2005
Charles H. Townes  
2006
John D. Barrow  
2007
Charles Taylor  
2008
Michael Heller  
2009
Bernard d'Espagnat  
2010
Francisco J. Ayala  



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