
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 7, 1990                   TAG: 9003071998
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: NEW YORK                                LENGTH: Short

SCIENTIST AND LAWYER SHARE TEMPLETON PRIZE

An Australian scientist who sees links between science and faith and a Hindu lawyer who started communities for lepers in India were named winners today of the Templeton Prize for progress in religion.

Biologist-geneticist Charles Birch and Murlidhar Devidas Amte will share the $580,000 prize, the largest made in any field.

Previous winners have included Mother Teresa, evangelist Billy Graham and Soviet exile-writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

-Associated Press

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