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Monday, February 26, 2007
News Conference to Announce 2007 Templeton Prize on Wednesday, March 14th
CONTACT: Donald Lehr – The Nolan/Lehr Group
(212) 967-8200 / dlehr@templetonprize.org
FOR RELEASE:
Monday, February 26, 2007
The winner of the 2007 Templeton Prize will be announced at a news conference on Wednesday, March 14th at 11:00 AM at the Church Center for the United Nations, 44th Street and First Avenue in New York City. The Templeton Prize is a cornerstone of the John Templeton Foundation's international efforts to serve as a philanthropic catalyst for discovery in areas engaging life's biggest questions, which it describes as ranging from explorations into the laws of nature and the universe to questions on the nature of love, gratitude, forgiveness, and creativity.
The 2007 Prize Laureate will attend the news conference and be available for questions. Questions may also be asked via a live webcast of the news conference with advance registration at www.templetonprize.org.
The Foundation noted that next month’s Templeton Prize announcement will launch a new online exchange on a question that illuminates its philanthropic mission at www.templeton.org.
The Prize, officially known as the Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries About Spiritual Realities, is the world's largest annual monetary award given to an individual. Created by global investor and philanthropist Sir John Templeton and first awarded in 1973, the monetary value of the Prize – 800,000 pounds sterling, more than $1.5 million – is set always to exceed the Nobel Prizes to underscore Templeton's belief that benefits from advances in spiritual discoveries can be quantifiably more vast than those from other worthy human endeavors. (The 2006 Nobel Prizes were valued at approximately $1.37 million.)
“Our vision is derived from my father’s commitment to progress through rigorous scientific research and related scholarship,” says John M. Templeton, Jr., M.D., the Foundation’s President and Sir John’s son. “The Foundation’s motto ‘How little we know, how eager to learn’ exemplifies our support for open-minded inquiry and our hope for advancing human progress through breakthrough discoveries. By honoring those whose research and discoveries have opened new perspectives and insights into such spiritual realities as purpose, love, and thanksgiving, the Prize fosters an environment that encourages others to help us more fully understand ourselves and our universe.”
The Duke of Edinburgh will present the Prize at a private ceremony at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday, May 2nd.
Although the Templeton Prize Laureate may or may not be associated with a particular religion, the international, interfaith panel of nine judges that awards the Prize does so without regard to religious affiliation.
The 2007 Templeton Prize Laureate will join a distinguished list of 36 former recipients. Last year’s award went to John D. Barrow, Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge, a cosmologist whose extensive writings about the relationship between life and the universe, and the nature of human understanding, have created new perspectives on questions of ultimate concern. Other recent Laureates include Charles H. Townes, Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 for his investigations into the properties of microwaves and his co-invention of the laser, and theoretical cosmologist George F.R. Ellis of the University of Cape Town, who advocates balancing the rationality of evidence-based science with the causal effect of forces beyond the explanation of hard science, including issues such as aesthetics, ethics, metaphysics, and meaning.
Editors Please Note: Information on the 2007 Templeton Prize Laureate can be provided in advance under strict embargo. Contact Donald Lehr at (212) 967-8200 / dlehr@templetonprize.org.
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(212) 967-8200 / dlehr@templetonprize.org
FOR RELEASE:
Monday, February 26, 2007
The winner of the 2007 Templeton Prize will be announced at a news conference on Wednesday, March 14th at 11:00 AM at the Church Center for the United Nations, 44th Street and First Avenue in New York City. The Templeton Prize is a cornerstone of the John Templeton Foundation's international efforts to serve as a philanthropic catalyst for discovery in areas engaging life's biggest questions, which it describes as ranging from explorations into the laws of nature and the universe to questions on the nature of love, gratitude, forgiveness, and creativity.
The 2007 Prize Laureate will attend the news conference and be available for questions. Questions may also be asked via a live webcast of the news conference with advance registration at www.templetonprize.org.
The Foundation noted that next month’s Templeton Prize announcement will launch a new online exchange on a question that illuminates its philanthropic mission at www.templeton.org.
The Prize, officially known as the Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries About Spiritual Realities, is the world's largest annual monetary award given to an individual. Created by global investor and philanthropist Sir John Templeton and first awarded in 1973, the monetary value of the Prize – 800,000 pounds sterling, more than $1.5 million – is set always to exceed the Nobel Prizes to underscore Templeton's belief that benefits from advances in spiritual discoveries can be quantifiably more vast than those from other worthy human endeavors. (The 2006 Nobel Prizes were valued at approximately $1.37 million.)
“Our vision is derived from my father’s commitment to progress through rigorous scientific research and related scholarship,” says John M. Templeton, Jr., M.D., the Foundation’s President and Sir John’s son. “The Foundation’s motto ‘How little we know, how eager to learn’ exemplifies our support for open-minded inquiry and our hope for advancing human progress through breakthrough discoveries. By honoring those whose research and discoveries have opened new perspectives and insights into such spiritual realities as purpose, love, and thanksgiving, the Prize fosters an environment that encourages others to help us more fully understand ourselves and our universe.”
The Duke of Edinburgh will present the Prize at a private ceremony at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday, May 2nd.
Although the Templeton Prize Laureate may or may not be associated with a particular religion, the international, interfaith panel of nine judges that awards the Prize does so without regard to religious affiliation.
The 2007 Templeton Prize Laureate will join a distinguished list of 36 former recipients. Last year’s award went to John D. Barrow, Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge, a cosmologist whose extensive writings about the relationship between life and the universe, and the nature of human understanding, have created new perspectives on questions of ultimate concern. Other recent Laureates include Charles H. Townes, Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 for his investigations into the properties of microwaves and his co-invention of the laser, and theoretical cosmologist George F.R. Ellis of the University of Cape Town, who advocates balancing the rationality of evidence-based science with the causal effect of forces beyond the explanation of hard science, including issues such as aesthetics, ethics, metaphysics, and meaning.
Editors Please Note: Information on the 2007 Templeton Prize Laureate can be provided in advance under strict embargo. Contact Donald Lehr at (212) 967-8200 / dlehr@templetonprize.org.
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The organizations and/or individuals who submit materials for distribution by Religion Press Release Services are solely responsible for the facts in and accuracy of their materials. Religion Press Release Services will correct any errors brought to its attention.
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