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Science 19 March 1999:
Vol. 283. no. 5409, p. 1841
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5409.1841d
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Ian Barbour, 75, a physicist and theologian at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, has been awarded the world's largest annual monetary prize. The Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, worth $1.24 million, was founded by Wall Street entrepreneur John Templeton to supplement--and top--the Nobels. It has gone to figures as diverse as Mother Teresa, University of Adelaide physicist Paul Davies, and former Nixon White House counsel Chuck Colson, who found God while in prison for his role in the Watergate scandal.

Barbour, author of numerous books on science and religion, is credited with having launched "a new era in the interdisciplinary dialogue" and for being "one of the world's most forceful advocates for ethics in technology." He plans to give $1 million to the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.

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