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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