Templeton Prize

The Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities was until 2001 awarded for Progress in Religion.

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 - Thomas Torrance
• 1979 - Rev. Nikkyo Niwano
• 1980 - Ralph Wendell Burhoe, founder of '
• 1981 - Cicely Saunders, hospice founder
• 1982 - Billy Graham, evangelist
• 1983 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Soviet dissident novelist
• 1984 - Rev. Michael Bourdeaux
• 1985 - Alister Hardy, founder of the Religious Experience Research Centre
• 1986 - Rev. James I. McCord of the Princeton Theological Seminary
• 1987 - Stanley Jaki
• 1988 - Dr. Inamullah Khan
• 1989 - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, physicist, and Lord MacLeod of Fuinary, founder of the Iona Community
• 1990 - Baba Amte and L. 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 - Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ
• 1997 - Pandurang Shastri Athavale
• 1998 - Sigmund Sternberg, philanthropist
• 1999 - Ian Barbour
• 2000 - Freeman Dyson, physicist
• 2001 - Rev. Arthur Peacocke
• 2002 - Rev. John Polkinghorne
• 2003 - Holmes Rolston III
• 2004 - George Ellis, cosmologist
• 2005 - Charles Townes, Nobel laureate , physicist (inventions include the maser and laser)

Hindus, Christians, Jews, Buddhists and Muslims have been on the panel of judges and have been recipients.

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