List of Balzan Prize recipients

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
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989

1990s

1990
  • James Freeman Gilbert (United States) --- Geophysics (solid earth)
  • Pierre Lalive d'Epinay (Switzerland) --- Private international law
  • Walter Burkert (Germany) --- Study of the ancient world (Mediterranean area)
1991
1992
  • Armand Borel (Switzerland) --- Mathematics
  • Ebrahim M. Samba (Gambia) --- Preventive medicine
  • Giovanni Macchia (Italy) --- History and criticism of the literatures
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)
  • René Couteaux (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
  • Ilkka Hanski (Finland) --- Ecological sciences
  • Martin Litchfield West (United Kingdom) --- Classical antiquity
  • Michael Stolleis (Germany) --- Legal history since 1500
  • Michel G.E. Mayor (Switzerland) --- Instrumentation and techniques in astronomy and astrophysics
  • Abdul Sattar Edhi (Pakistan) --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
  • Terence Cave (United Kingdom) --- Literature since 1500
  • Michael Grätzel (Germany / Switzerland) --- Science of New Materials
  • Brenda Milner (United Kingdom / Canada) --- Cognitive Neurosciences
  • Paolo Rossi Monti (Italy) --- History of Science

2010s

2010
  • Manfred Brauneck (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
  • Ronald Dworkin (United States) --- Jurisprudence
  • Reinhard Strohm (Germany) --- Musicology
  • Kurt Lambeck (Australia) --- Solid Earth Sciences, with emphasis on interdisciplinary research
  • David Baulcombe (United Kingdom) --- Epigenetics
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)
  • Vivre en Famille (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
  • Jacques Aumont (France) --- Film Studies
  • Michael Cook (United States / United Kingdom) --- Islamic Studies
  • Luigi Ambrosio (Italy) --- Theory of Partial Differential Equations
  • Erika von Mutius, Klaus F. Rabe, Werner Seeger and Tobias Welte (all Germany) --- Pathophysiology of respiration: from basic sciences to the bedside

2020s

2020
  • Susan Trumbore (USA / Germany) --- Earth System Dynamics
  • Jean-Marie Tarascon (France) --- Environmental Challenges: Materials Science for Renewable Energy
  • Joan Martinez Alier (Spain) --- Environmental Challenges: Responses from the Social Sciences and the Humanities
  • Antonio Augusto Cançado Trindade (Brazil) --- Human Rights

References

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