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We are delighted that our alumnus, Professor John Lennox (1962), has been awarded the VIZE 97 Prize for 2023, becoming this year's Laureate of the Dagmar and Václav Havel Foundation. The Prize was given to him for an unmissable contribution to the public debate on the role of religion in contemporary civilization.

Prof Lennox received a diploma and the sceptre of St Vojt?ch, by the Czech artist Ji?í Plieštik. He chaired a debate and panel discussion on the subject of Science and Religion, the engagement and study of which he was awarded the Prize. 

The Board of the VIZE 97 Prize project said: ‘Professor Lennox becomes this year’s laureate of the VIZE 97 Prize not because of his research in the mathematical field, in which he naturally excels, but above all because of the engagement he shows in the discussion of religion and its influence on modern science. It helps us, the lay public, to become familiar with the issues that the debate about the relationship between faith and science necessarily brings up and which are important, non-obvious, difficult and yet timeless and at the same time extremely topical.’

Professor Lennox is also Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and an Associate Fellow at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

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