Richard Dawkins Award

The Richard Dawkins Award is an annual award that was presented by the Atheist Alliance of America[1] up until July 2019 when it moved to the Center for Inquiry (CFI). According to the CFI press release "The recipient will be a distinguished individual from the worlds of science, scholarship, education or entertainment, who publicly proclaims the values of secularism and rationalism, upholding scientific truth wherever it may lead".[2]

Richard Dawkins Award
Awarded forDistinguished individual from the worlds of science, scholarship, education or entertainment, who publicly proclaims the values of secularism and rationalism, upholding scientific truth wherever it may lead
CountryAll nations
Presented byCenter for Inquiry
First awarded2003 (2003)
Currently held by18 prizes (as of 2020)
Websitecenterforinquiry.org

The award has been presented since 2003,[3] and is named after Richard Dawkins, an English evolutionary biologist who was named the world's top thinker in a 2013 reader's poll of the Prospect Magazine.[4]

Recipients
  • Richard Dawkins Award
  • Jerry Coyne receives the Richard Dawkins Award in Atlanta, GA 2015
  • Lawrence Krauss is given the award by Mark Gura and Melissa Pugh at Reason Rally 2016
  • Richard Dawkins, Mark Gura and CW Brown present the award to Stephen Fry at CSICon
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See also

References
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  2. "RICHARD DAWKINS AWARD MOVING TO THE CENTER FOR INQUIRY". Center for Inquiry. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
  3. "In pics Richard Dawkins Award past winners - Javed Akhtar to Stephen Fry".
  4. "Richard Dawkins named world's top thinker in poll". theguardian.com. Retrieved 6 October 2013.
  5. "Bill Maher gets the Richard Dawkins Award? That's like Jenny McCarthy getting an award for public health". scienceblogs.com. Retrieved 6 October 2013.
  6. "Inspiring Women of TAM 2013: Susan Jacoby". skepticink.com. Retrieved 6 October 2013.
  7. "Christopher Hitchens: one man's service in the war against delusion". theguardian.com. Retrieved 6 October 2013.
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  9. "Dr. Steven Pinker to Receive 2013 Richard Dawkins Award". atheistallianceamerica.org. Archived from the original on May 13, 2013. Retrieved 6 October 2013.
  10. "Rebecca Goldstein receives the Richard Dawkins Award at the Atheist Alliance of America convention | Richard Dawkins Foundation". www.richarddawkins.net. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  11. "Jerry Coyne Receives 2015 Richard Dawkins Award!". Archived from the original on 2015-03-06. Retrieved 2015-03-04.
  12. "Ricky Gervais to win the 2019 Richard Dawkins Award in London". centerforinquiry.org. up
  13. Blumner, Robyn (2020). "2019 Richard Dawkins Award Goes to Ricky Gervais". Skeptical Inquirer. Committee for Skeptical Inquirer. 43 (6): 6. When presenting the award to Gervais, Dawkins called Gerbais a "witty hero of atheism and reason".
  14. "Javed Akhtar wins Richard Dawkins Award". The Indian Express. 2020-06-08. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  15. https://www.aninews.in/news/entertainment/bollywood/javed-akhtar-becomes-first-indian-to-bag-prestigious-richard-dawkins-award20200607174809/
  16. https://www.ndtv.com/video/news/news/javed-akhtar-wins-richard-dawkins-award-550966
  17. https://centerforinquiry.org/press_releases/javed-akhtar-wins-richard-dawkins-award/
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