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French physicist and philosopher of science Bernard d’Espagnat has won the Templeton Prize for work which acknowledges that science cannot fully explain ‘the nature of being’. “He has constructed a coherent body of work that shows why it is credible that the human mind is capable of perceiving deeper realities,” wrote the chair of physics at American University in the United Arab Emirates in his nominating letter.

From the mid-1960s through the early 1980s, d’Espagnat, 87, was a major player in the physics research community during a revolutionary period of exploration and development in quantum mechanics, specifically on experiments testing the “Bell’s inequalities” theorem. Definitive results published in 1982 verified that Bell’s inequalities were violated in the way quantum mechanics predicts, leading to the discovery of the phenomenon known as “non-local entanglement,” and, in turn, to “quantum information science,” a flourishing contemporary domain of research combining physics, information science, and mathematics.

The Templeton Prize was announced Monday at a news conference in Paris by the John Templeton Foundation, which has awarded the prize each year since 1973 to a living person who has made an exceptional contribution to affirming life’s spiritual dimension. The Prize, valued at one million pounds sterling (approximately $1.42 million or €1.12), is the world’s largest annual monetary award given to an individual.