Physicist Freeman J. Dyson will receive an award next month of greater monetary value than the Nobel prize.
Yet the $948,000 Templeton prize, to be presented in a public ceremony May 16 in Washington, D.C., will not recognize Dyson, 76, for his physics research. The annual honor goes to individuals for originality in advancing religious understanding.
Dyson has been a physics professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.,
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