Sample Grants
Grant Title Award Date Grant Amount
 
Templeton Royal Society Lectures on the Nature of Human Knowledge and Understanding

The Royal Society (London UK)

These grants support a lecture series curated and organized by the Royal Society on the nature of human knowledge and understanding.
 June 2004 $281,885
Templeton Research Fellows: Philosophy-Physics Project on the Nature of Quantum Reality

Professor Anton Zeilinger, Chair
Institut für Experimentalphysik
Universität Wien (Wien Austria)

This grant sponsors residential fellowships at an active physics laboratory for young scholars interested in the interaction between the disciplines of physics, philosophy, and philosophical theology. Each year, a philosopher or philosophically informed scientist will join the Vienna Quantum Physics Group, led by Professor Zeilinger, as a residential fellow.
 June 2005 $895,180
FQX Foundational Questions in Physics and Cosmology

Professor Max Tegmark
Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge MA)

Professor Anthony N. Aguirre
Department of Physics
University of California Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz CA)

This grant established the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) and the Foundational Questions Consortium (FQXc) for networking, and the sponsoring of research grants, mini-grants, contests and conferences. Their focus is on questions at the foundations of physics and cosmology, particularly new frontiers and innovative ideas integral to a deep understanding of reality but unlikely to be supported by conventional funding sources.
 March 2006 $8,812,078
Conference on Einstein, God and Time

Rev. Dr. Michael W.S. Parsons, Theology Faculty
Ian Ramsey Centre
Oxford University (Oxford UK)

This grant supported an interdisciplinary conference to explore the meaning of time in physics and theology. The conference marked the publication centenary of Albert Einstein's papers on the photoelectric effect, the special theory of relativity, and statistical mechanics.
 June 2005 $30,291
The Religious Views of the Great Physicists of the 20th Century

Professor Dr. Gebhard Löhr
Universität Greifswald (Greifswald Germany)

This grant supported research yielding several German-language papers and their English translations. The project focused on what great physicists of the 20th century (e.g., Einstein, Planck, Bohr, Heisenberg, Eddington, etc.) thought of the relationship between science and religion, as expressed by their writings and spoken words.
 July 2002 $45,000
AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion: Promoting a Public Conversation

Dr. Connie Bertka, Program Director
Dialogue on Science, Ethics, & Religion [DoSER]

This initiative engages the public on a range of questions in science and religion, including evolution, cosmology, astrobiology and human evolution. The DoSER program contributes to the level of scientific understanding in religious communities, and promotes multidisciplinary education and scholarship on the ethical and religious implications of advancements in science and technology.
 January 2001 $3,293,929
A Three Volume Set of Biographies on Eminent Lives in Twentieth-Century Science and Religion

Professor Nicolaas A. Rupke, Director
Institute for the History of Science
George August University (Goettingen Germany)

This grant supports an international collaborative effort to research and edit a three-volume series entitled Eminent Lives in Twentieth Century Science and Religion. The three volumes will explore the interactions of the religious beliefs of 36 scientists. The project also involves teaching initiatives and conferences.
 November 2001 $198,956
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