Dr. Marilynne Robinson, 2019 Templeton Prize Ceremony, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 29

Dr. Marilynne Robinson speaking at the 2019 Templeton Prize Ceremony honoring Professor Marcelo Gleiser at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium in New York City on May 29. Dr. Robinson is a Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist and an acclaimed essayist. She is the author of Housekeeping, Gilead, Home, and Lila, and non-fiction books including When I Was a Child I Read Books, The Givenness of Things, and, most recently, What Are We Doing Here?

Prof. Gleiser is the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and a professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. He was announced as the 2019 Templeton Prize Laureate on March 19 by the John Templeton Foundation, based in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. A native of Brazil, Gleiser is the first Latin American to be awarded the Templeton Prize.

Marcelo Gleiser is a leading proponent of the view that science, philosophy, and spirituality are complementary expressions of humanity’s need to embrace mystery and the unknown. He has earned international acclaim through his books, essays, blogs, TV documentaries, and conferences that present science as a spiritual quest to understand the origins of the universe and of life on Earth.

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