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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."
O Prêmio Templeton (em inglês Templeton Prize) é uma condecoração anual atribuída pela Fundação John Templeton. Estabelecido em 1972, ele é entregue a uma pessoa viva que, na opinião dos juízes, "fez uma contribuição excepcional para a afirmação da dimensão espiritual da vida, seja através de uma introspecção ...
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John Templeton (29 November 1912 – 8 July 2008) was an American-born British investor, banker, fund manager, and philanthropist. In 1954, he entered the mutual fund market and created the Templeton Growth Fund.According to a 2011 profile of the foundation: These were the values he sought to promote first through the Templeton Prizewhich he started ...
Templeton bequeathed around $500 million to the foundation when he died in 2008. As of 2015[update] the foundation's total endowment had grown to $3.34 billion. The foundation reports that it has issued over 3,300 grants, with over 2,800 of those going to recipients in North America.In 2016, the foundation disbursed over $151,000,000 in grants.
The Templeton Prize was established by John Templeton and he administered the prize until the foundation was established in 1987, which took it over.The prize has "a value of about $1.7 million, making it one of the world’s largest annual awards given to an individual". The early prizes were given solely to people who had made great achievements in...
Templeton "was a great believer in progress, learning, initiative and the power of human imagination—not to mention the free-enterprise system". While most of its funding goes to topics in science, philosophy, and religion, around 40 percent of its annual grants go to character development, genius, freedom and free enterprise, and fields associated...
The foundation has received both praise and criticism for its awards. The French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) has been critical of the foundation for funding "initiatives to bring science and religion closer together." Science journalist Chris Mooney, an atheist, received a 2010 Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowship. In a 2010...
Drexel University sociologist Robert Brulle listed the foundation as among the largest financial contributors to the climate change denialmovement between 2003 and 2010.
The foundation also funds an affiliated publisher, Templeton Press, which from 2004 to 2010 published the periodical In Character: A Journal of Everyday Virtues. From 2000 to 2003 it published Research news & opportunities in science and theology, in which Bruce L. Gordon published a piece on the state of "design theory" in the aftermath of the Mic...
The World's Most Interesting Prize. THE TEMPLETON PRIZE honors individuals 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.
The Templeton Prize was established in 1972 by John Marks Templeton, an American-born financial entrepreneur who sought to advance human knowledge of the universe through a broad set of intellectual approaches and an ecumenical perspective on spiritual progress.
YearNameCountry*2023Edna Adan IsmailSomaliland (Somalia)2022United States2021United Kingdom2020United StatesO Prêmio Templeton ( em inglês Templeton Prize) é uma condecoração anual atribuída pela Fundação John Templeton. Estabelecido em 1972, ele é entregue a uma pessoa viva que, na opinião dos juízes, "fez uma contribuição excepcional para a afirmação da dimensão espiritual da vida, seja através de uma introspecção, descoberta ou trabalhos práticos".
THE TEMPLETON PRIZE honors individuals 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.
