List of Balzan Prize recipients explained
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
- Enrico Bombieri (Italy) --- Mathematics
- Hassan Fathy (Egypt) --- Architecture and town planning
- Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina) --- Philology, linguistics and literary criticism
- 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
- (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)
- (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
- 2002
- 2003
- 2004
- 2005
- 2006
- 2007
- 2008
- 2009
2010s
- 2010
- (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)
- 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,, and (all Germany) --- Pathophysiology of respiration: from basic sciences to the bedside
2020s
- 2020
- 2021
- 2022
- 2023
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Balzan Prize. 2020-09-15. www.balzan.org. it-it.