John Templeton, Philanthropist of Science and Religion, Dead at 95 [News]

Sir John M. Templeton, a billionaire investor and philanthropist who poured hundreds of millions of dollars into efforts to reconcile science and religion, died of pneumonia yesterday in the Bahamas. He was 95.Born in Tennessee, Templeton was a Rhodes scholar who worked his way through Yale University during the Great Depression. He made his first big investment in 1939, buying low-priced stock in 104 companies--34 of them in bankruptcy. He reaped large profits when he sold the stock a few years later, according to The New York Times. [More]

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