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The Templeton Prize is an annual award granted to a living person, in the estimation of the judges, "whose exemplary achievements advance Sir John Templeton's philanthropic vision: harnessing the power of the sciences to explore the deepest questions of the universe and humankind's place and purpose within it." It was established, funded and administered by John Templeton starting in 1972. It is co-funded by the John Templeton Foundation, Templeton Religion Trust, and Templeton World Charity Foundation, and administered by the John Templeton Foundation.[1]

The prize was originally awarded to people working in the field of religion (Mother Teresa was the first winner), but in the 1980s the scope broadened to include people working at the intersection of science and religion.[2] Until 2001, the name of the prize was "Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion", and from 2002 to 2008 it was called the "Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities".[3][4] Hindus, Christians, Jews, Buddhists and Muslims have been on the panel of judges and have been recipients of the prize.[5]

The monetary value of the prize is adjusted so that it exceeds that of the Nobel Prizes; Templeton felt, according to The Economist, that "spirituality was ignored" in the Nobel Prizes.[6] Template:As of, it is £1.1 million.[7] It was typically presented by Prince Philip, during his lifetime, in ceremonies held at Buckingham Palace.[8]

The prize has been referred to as prestigious[9] and coveted,[10] with The Washington Post calling it the most prestigious award in religion.[11] Atheist scientists Richard Dawkins,[12] Harry Kroto[13] and Jerry Coyne have criticized the prize as "blurring [religion's] well-demarcated border with science" and being awarded "to scientists who are either religious themselves or say nice things about religion",[14] a criticism rejected by 2011 laureate Martin Rees, who pointed to his own and other laureates' atheism and that their research in fields such as psychology, evolutionary biology, and economy can hardly be classified as the "promotion of religion".[14]

Laureates

Year Laureate Notes Ref(s)
1973 Template:Sort Mother Teresa Founder of the Missionaries of Charity; 1979 Nobel Peace Prize laureate [15]
1974 Template:Sort Frère Roger Founder of the Taizé Community [16]
1975 Template:Sort Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Former President of India, advocate of non-aggression with Pakistan [16]
1976 Template:Sort Leo Joseph Suenens Pioneer in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal movement [17]
1977 Template:Sort Chiara Lubich Founder of the Focolare Movement [18]
1978 Template:Center Thomas F. Torrance Former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland [17]
1979 Template:Sort Nikkyō Niwano Co-founder of the Risshō Kōsei Kai [17]
1980 Template:Center Ralph Wendell Burhoe Founder of the journal Zygon [19]
1981 Template:Sort Cicely Saunders Founder of the hospice and palliative care movement [20]
1982 Template:Sort Billy Graham Evangelist [21]
1983 Template:Sort Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Soviet dissident novelist; Nobel laureate [21]
1984 Template:Center Michael Bourdeaux Founder of the Keston Institute [16]
1985 Template:Center Sir Alister Hardy Founder of the Religious Experience Research Centre [22]
1986 Template:Center James I. McCord Former president, Princeton Theological Seminary [23]
1987 Template:Sort Stanley Jaki Benedictine priest; professor of astrophysics, Seton Hall University [21]
1988 Template:Center Inamullah Khan Former secretary-general, Modern World Muslim Congress [24]
1989 Template:Sort Carl Friedrich Freiherr von WeizsäckerTemplate:Efn Physicist and philosopher [17]
Template:Center George MacLeodTemplate:Efn Founder of the Iona Community [25]
1990 Template:Sort Baba AmteTemplate:Efn Developer of modern communities for people suffering from leprosy [26]
Template:Center Charles BirchTemplate:Efn Emeritus professor, University of Sydney [27]
1991 Template:Sort Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits Former Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth [17]
1992 Template:Sort Kyung-Chik Han Evangelist and founder of Youngnak Presbyterian Church, Seoul. From northern Korea. [28]
1993 Template:Sort Charles Colson Founder of the Prison Fellowship [16]
1994 Template:Sort Michael Novak Philosopher and diplomat [16]
1995 Template:Sort Paul Davies Theoretical physicist [29]
1996 Template:Sort Bill Bright Founder of the Campus Crusade for Christ [30]
1997 Template:Center Pandurang Shastri Athavale Social reformer and philosopher, founder of the Swadhyaya Movement [30]
1998 Template:Center Sir Sigmund Sternberg Philanthropist; founder of the Three Faith Forum [16]
1999 Template:Center Ian Barbour Former professor of science, technology and society, Carleton College [31]
2000 Template:Sort Freeman Dyson Theoretical and mathematical physicist, mathematician, and statistician [31]
2001 Template:Center Arthur Peacocke Former dean, Clare College, Cambridge [32]
2002 Template:Sort John Polkinghorne Physicist and theologian [16]
2003 Template:Sort Holmes Rolston III Philosopher [33]
2004 Template:Sort George F. R. Ellis Cosmologist and philosopher [34]
2005 Template:Sort Charles Hard Townes Nobel laureate and physicist [15]
2006 Template:Sort John D. Barrow Cosmologist and theoretical physicist [35]
2007 Template:Sort Charles Taylor Philosopher [12]
2008 Template:Sort Michał Heller Physicist and philosopher [36]
2009 Template:Sort Bernard d'Espagnat Physicist [37]
2010 Template:Sort Francisco J. Ayala Biologist [38]
2011 Template:Sort Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow Cosmologist and astrophysicist [39]
2012 Template:Sort 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso Spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, and 1989 Nobel Peace Prize laureate [40]
2013 Template:Sort Desmond Tutu Nobel laureate, social rights activist and retired Anglican archbishop [41]
2014 Template:Sort Tomáš Halík Roman Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher [42]
2015 Template:Sort Jean Vanier Catholic theologian, humanitarian and founder of L'Arche and Faith and Light [43]
2016 Template:Sort Jonathan Sacks Former Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, philosopher, and scholar of Judaism [44]
2017 Template:Sort Alvin Plantinga American scholar, philosopher, and writer [45]
2018 Template:Sort Abdullah II of Jordan King of Jordan [46]
2019 Template:Sort Marcelo Gleiser Brazilian physicist and astronomer, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College [47][48]
2020 Template:Sort Francis Collins Geneticist and physician [49]
2021 Template:Sort Jane Goodall Ethologist, activist and renowned chimpanzee researcher [50]
2022 Template:Sort Frank Wilczek Theoretical physicist [51]
2023 Template:Sort Edna Adan Ismail Health care advocate [52]
2024 Template:Sort Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela Psychologist [53]
2025 Template:Sort Patriarch Bartholomew Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople [54]

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