List of Balzan Prize recipients

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This is a list of recipients of the Balzan Prize, one of the world's most prestigious academic awards. The International Balzan Prize Foundation awards four annual monetary prizes to people or organizations who have made outstanding achievements in the humanities, natural sciences, culture, and peace on an international level The Prizes are awarded in four subject areas: "two in literature, the moral sciences and the arts" and "two in the physical, mathematical and natural sciences and medicine."[1] The special Prize for Humanity, Peace and Fraternity is presented at intervals of every three years or longer.

1960s–1970s[]

1961
1962
1978
  • Mother Teresa of Calcutta (India) --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
1979

1980s[]

1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
  • Jan Hendrik Oort (Netherlands) --- Astrophysics
  • Jean Starobinski (Switzerland) --- History and criticism of the literatures
  • Sewall Wright (United States) --- Genetics
1985
1986
1987
  • Jerome Seymour Bruner (United States) --- Human psychology
  • Phillip V. Tobias (South Africa) --- Physical anthropology
  • Richard W. Southern (United Kingdom) --- Medieval history
1988
1989
  • Emmanuel Lévinas (France / Lithuania) --- Philosophy
  • Leo Pardi (Italy) --- Ethologie
  • Martin John Rees (United Kingdom) --- High energy astrophysics

1990s[]

1990
  • James Freeman Gilbert (United States) --- Geophysics (solid earth)
  • (Switzerland) --- Private international law
  • Walter Burkert (Germany) --- Study of the ancient world (Mediterranean area)
1991
1992
1993
  • Jean Leclant (France) --- Art and archaeology of the ancient world
  • Lothar Gall (Germany) --- History: societies of the 19th and 20th centuries
  • Wolfgang H. Berger (Germany / United States) --- Paleontology with special reference to oceanography
1994
  • Fred Hoyle (United Kingdom) and Martin Schwarzschild (Germany / United States) --- Astrophysics (evolution of stars)
  • Norberto Bobbio (Italy) --- Law and political science (governments and democracy)
  •  [fr] (France) --- Biology (cell structure with special reference to the nervous system)
1995
  • Alan J. Heeger (United States) --- Science of new non-biological materials
  • Carlo M. Cipolla (Italy) --- Economic history
  • Yves Bonnefoy (France) --- Art history and art criticism (as applied to European art from the Middle Ages to our times)
1996
1997
1998
  • Andrzej Walicki (Poland / United States) --- History: the cultural and social history of the Slavonic world from the reign of Catherine the Great to the Russian revolutions of 1917
  • Harmon Craig (United States) --- Geochemistry
  • Robert McCredie May (United Kingdom / Australia) --- Biodiversity
1999

2000s[]

2000
2001
  • Claude Lorius (France) --- Climatology
  • James Sloss Ackerman (United States) --- History of architecture (including town planning and landscape design)
  • Jean-Pierre Changeux (France) --- Cognitive neurosciences
  • Marc Fumaroli (France) --- Literary history and criticism (post 1500)
2002
2003
2004
  • Andrew Colin Renfrew (United Kingdom) --- Prehistoric Archaeology
  • Michael Marmot (United Kingdom) --- Epidemiology
  • Nikki R. Keddie (United States) --- The Islamic world from the end of the 19th to the end of the 20th century
  • Pierre Deligne (Belgium) --- Mathematics
  • Community of Sant'Egidio --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
2005
2006
  • Ludwig Finscher (Germany) --- History of western music since 1600
  • Quentin Skinner (United Kingdom) --- Political thought: history and theory
  • Andrew Lange (United States) and  [arz; de; fr; it; pt; ru] (Italy) --- Observational astronomy and astrophysics
  • Elliott M. Meyerowitz (United States) and Christopher R. Somerville (Canada) --- Plant molecular genetics
2007
  • Sumio Iijima (Japan) --- Nanoscience
  • Bruce A. Beutler (United States) and Jules A. Hoffmann (France) --- Innate Immunity
  • Michel Zink (France) --- European Literature (1000 - 1500)
  • Rosalyn Higgins (United Kingdom) --- International Law since 1945
  • Karlheinz Böhm (Austria) --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
2008
  • Maurizio Calvesi (Italy) --- The Visual Arts since 1700
  • Thomas Nagel (Serbia / United States) --- Moral Philosophy
  • Ian H. Frazer (Australia) --- Preventive Medicine, including Vaccination
  • Wallace S. Broecker (United States) --- Science of Climate Change
2009

2010s[]

2010
  •  [de; pt] (Germany) --- History of theatre in all its aspects
  • Carlo Ginzburg (Italy) --- European History (1400 - 1700)
  • Jacob Palis (Brazil) --- Mathematics (pure or applied)
  • Shinya Yamanaka (Japan) --- Stem Cells: Biology and potential applications
2011
  • Peter Brown (Ireland) --- Ancient History (The Graeco-Roman World)
  • Bronislaw Baczko (Poland) --- Enlightenment Studies
  • Russell Scott Lande (United States / United Kingdom) --- Theoretical Biology or Bioinformatics
  • Joseph Ivor Silk (United States / United Kingdom) --- The Early Universe (From the Planck Time to the First Galaxies)
2012
2013
2014
  • Mario Torelli (Italy) --- Classical Archaeology
  • Ian Hacking (Canada) --- Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind
  • G. David Tilman (United States) --- Basic and/or applied Plant Ecology
  • Dennis Sullivan (United States) --- Mathematics (pure or applied)
  • (France) --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
2015
  • Hans Belting (Germany) --- History of European Art (1300-1700)
  • Joel Mokyr (Netherland / United States / Israel) --- Economic History
  • Francis Halzen (Belgium / United States) --- Astroparticle Physics including neutrino and gamma-ray observation
  • David Karl (United States) --- Oceanography
2016
  • Piero Boitani (Italy) --- Comparative Literature
  • Reinhard Jahn (Germany) --- Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, including neurodegenerative and developmental aspects
  • Federico Capasso (Italy) --- Applied Photonics
  • Robert Keohane (United States) --- International Relations: History and Theory
2017
2018
2019

2020s[]

2020
2021

References[]

  1. ^ "Balzan Prize". www.balzan.org (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-09-15.

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