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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."
Fulvio Melia, physicist, astrophysicist, and author; Ben Miller, English comedian and hosted shows such as It's Not Rocket Science (TV series) Julius Sumner Miller, physicist and broadcaster; Mark Miodownik, materials scientist, engineer, broadcaster, and writer; Ashley Montagu, anthropologist and humanist, authored by over 60 books
Vania Jordanova – United States, physicist, space weather and geomagnetic storms [1] Brian David Josephson – U.K. (born 1940) Nobel laureate; James Prescott Joule – U.K. (1818–1889) Adolfas Jucys – Lithuania (1904–1974) Chang Kee Jung – South Korea, United States
Philastus Hurlburt (1809–1883), American evangelical Richard Hurlburt (born 1950), Canadian politician William Henry Hurlbert (1827–1895), American journalist
"for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics" 2006 John C. Mather: Roanoke, Virginia, U.S. "for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation" 2006 George F. Smoot: Yukon, Florida, U.S.
The first prize in physics was awarded in 1901 to Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, of Germany, who received 150,782 SEK. John Bardeen is the only laureate to win the prize twice—in 1956 and 1972. William Lawrence Bragg was the youngest Nobel laureate in physics; he won the prize in 1915 at the age of 25.
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The secretary takes part in the meeting, but cannot cast a vote unless the secretary is also a member of the Committee. Until 1973, the Nobel Committees for Physics and Chemistry had a common secretary. Wilhelm Palmær, 1900–1926; Arne Westgren, 1926–1943; Arne Ölander, 1943–1965; Arne Magnéli, 1966–1973; Bengt Nagel, 1974–1988