Templeton Prize Awarded to Northwestern University Professor
March 16, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute
Charles M. Taylor, a philosopher and a professor at Northwestern University, in Evanston, Ill., has been named the winner of the 2007 Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries About Spiritual Realities, The Chronicle of Higher Education reports.
The prize, which is worth more than $1.5-million, is presented annually by the John Templeton Foundation, in West Conshohocken, Pa.
The foundation recognized Mr. Taylor for his work spanning more than half a century on the relationship between natural science and religion.
The choice of Mr. Taylor for the Templeton Prize represents a departure. Six of the seven most recent winners of the prize were physical scientists. Some other past winners were Mother Teresa, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Charles Colson.
The prize was created in 1972 by Sir John Templeton, who made his fortune in mutual funds and has since devoted himself to philanthropy.
Read The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s profile of Mr. Templeton.
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