Barbour, Former Templeton Prize Winners Honored By Prince Philip
Ian Barbour, the Carleton College Winifred & Atherton Bean Professor of Science, Technology & Society, Emeritus, was one of the former Templeton Prize winners honored by Prince Philip in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on June 1. Prince Philip has awarded the prize annually since 1972; he recently celebrated his 90th birthday and will be ending most of his official duties. He wished to honor some of the previous prize recipients in addition to this year’s recipient, Sir Martin Rees, a noted astrophysicist and former president of the Royal Society. Barbour received the prize in 1999 in a ceremony in the same room. From the balcony of this room Prince William and Princess Kate kissed each other after their wedding last month.
Northfield, Minn.––Ian Barbour, the Carleton College Winifred & Atherton Bean Professor of Science, Technology & Society, Emeritus, was one of the former Templeton Prize winners honored by Prince Philip in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on June 1.
The Templeton Prize recipients are selected each year by an international panel of judges. Prince Philip has awarded the prize annually since 1972; he recently celebrated his 90th birthday and will be ending most of his official duties. He wished to honor some of the previous prize recipients in addition to this year’s recipient, Sir Martin Rees, a noted astrophysicist and former president of the Royal Society.
Barbour received the prize in 1999 in a ceremony in the same room. From the balcony of this room Prince William and Princess Kate kissed each other after their wedding last month.
The prize was awarded to Barbour for his writing relating science and religion. In 1989 he gave the Gifford Lectures in Scotland. He has written or edited eight books that have been translated into 14 languages. At Carleton, he taught in the physics and religion departments, and was of the founders of Carleton’s environmental and technological studies program, which is now an environmental studies department.
He now lives with his wife, Deane, in a retirement community, the Village on the Cannon, in Northfield.
For more on the Templeton Prize, please visit http://www.templetonprize.org/.