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Physicist Is Awarded the Templeton Prize in Spiritual Matters
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of New York Times
New York Times, March 10, 2005
Posted: November 11th, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/10/science/10prize.html?ex=12...
Posted: November 11th, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/10/science/10prize.html?ex=12...
Dr. Charles Townes, a physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for helping to invent the laser, added another and most unusual prize to a lifelong storehouse of honors yesterday. In a news conference at the United Nations, he was announced as the winner of the $1.5 million Templeton Prize, awarded annually for progress or research in spiritual matters. Dr. Townes, 89, a longtime professor at the University of California, Berkeley, has long argued that those old antagonists science and religion are more alike than different and are destined to merge.
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