List of Balzan Prize recipients
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List of recipients of the Balzan Prize, one of the world's most prestigious academic awards.
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[edit] 2009 - 2000
[edit] 2007
- Sumio Iijima (Japan) --- Nanoscience
- Bruce A. Beutler (USA) and Jules A. Hoffmann (France) --- Innate Immunity
- Michel Zink (France) --- European Literature (1000 - 1500)
- Rosalyn Higgins (UK) --- International Law since 1945
- Karlheinz Böhm (Austria) --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
[edit] 2006
- Ludwig Finscher (Germany) --- History of western music since 1600
- Quentin Skinner (UK) --- Political thought: history and theory
- Andrew Lange (USA) and Paolo de Bernardis (Italy) --- Observational astronomy and astrophysics
- Elliott M. Meyerowitz (USA) and Christopher R. Somerville (Canada) --- Plant molecular genetics
[edit] 2005
- Lothar Ledderose (Germany) --- History of the art of Asia
- Peter Hall (UK) --- The social and cultural history of cities since the beginning of the 16th century
- Peter R. Grant (UK) and Rosemary Grant (USA) --- Population biology
- Russell J. Hemley (USA) and Ho-kwang (David) Mao (China) --- Mineral physics
[edit] 2004
- Andrew Colin Renfrew (UK) --- Prehistoric Archaeology
- Community of Sant'Egidio --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
- Michael Marmot (UK) --- Epidemiology
- Nikki R. Keddie (USA) --- The Islamic world from the end of the 19th to the end of the 20th century
- Pierre Deligne (Belgium) --- Mathematics
[edit] 2003
- Eric Hobsbawm (UK) --- European history since 1900
- Reinhard Genzel (Germany) --- Infrared astronomy
- Serge Moscovici (France) --- Social psychology
- Wen-Hsiung Li (Taiwan / USA) --- Genetics and evolution
[edit] 2002
- Anthony Grafton (USA) --- History of the humanities
- Dominique Schnapper (France) --- Sociology
- Walter J. Gehring (Switzerland) --- Developmental biology
- Xavier Le Pichon (France) --- Geology
[edit] 2001
- Claude Lorius (France) --- Climatology
- James Sloss Ackerman (USA) --- History of architecture (including town planning and landscape design)
- Jean-Pierre Changeux (France) --- Cognitive neurosciences
- Marc Fumaroli (France) --- Literary history and criticism (post 1500)
[edit] 2000
- Abdul Sattar Edhi (Pakistan) --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
- Ilkka Hanski (Finland) --- Ecological sciences
- Martin Litchfield West (UK) --- Classical antiquity
- Michael Stolleis (Germany) --- Legal history since 1500
- Michel G.E. Mayor (Switzerland) --- Instrumentation and techniques in astronomy and astrophysics
[edit] 1999 - 1990
[edit] 1999
- John Elliott (UK) --- History 1500-1800
- Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (Italy / USA) --- Science of human origins
- Mikhael Gromov (Russia / France) --- Mathematics
- Paul Ricoeur (France) --- Philosophy France
[edit] 1998
- Andrzej Walicki (Poland/USA) --- 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 (USA) --- Geochemistry
- Robert McCredie May (UK / Australia) --- Biodiversity
[edit] 1997
- Charles Coulston Gillispie (USA) --- History and philosophy of science
- Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah (Sri Lanka / USA) --- Social sciences: social anthropology
- Thomas Wilson Meade (UK) --- Epidemiology
[edit] 1996
- Arno Borst (Germany) --- History: medieval cultures
- Arnt Eliassen (Norway) --- Meteorology
- International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
- Stanley Hoffmann (Austria / USA / France) --- Political sciences: contemporary international relations
[edit] 1995
- Alan J. Heeger (USA) --- 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)
[edit] 1994
- Fred Hoyle (UK) and Martin Schwarzschild (Germany / USA) --- 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)
[edit] 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 / USA) --- Paleontology with special reference to oceanography
[edit] 1992
- Armand Borel (Switzerland / USA) --- Mathematics
- Ebrahim M. Samba (Gambia) --- Preventive medicine
- Giovanni Macchia (Italy) --- History and criticism of the literatures
[edit] 1991
- Abbé Pierre (Henri Grouèse) (France) --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
- György Ligeti (Hungary / Austria) --- Music
- John Maynard Smith (UK) --- Genetics and evolution
- Vitorino Magalhães Godinho (Portugal) --- History: The emergence of Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries
[edit] 1990
- James Freeman Gilbert (USA) --- Geophysics (solid earth)
- Pierre Lalive d'Epinay (Switzerland) --- Private international law
- Walter Burkert (Germany) --- Study of the ancient world (Mediterranean area)
[edit] 1989-1980
[edit] 1989
- Emmanuel Lévinas (France / Lithuania) --- Philosophy
- Leo Pardi (Italy) --- Ethologie
- Martin John Rees (UK) --- High energy astrophysics
[edit] 1988
- Michael Evenari (Israel) and Otto Ludwig Lange (Germany) --- Applied botany (incl. ecological aspects)
- René Etiemble (France) --- Comparative literature
- Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt (Israel) --- Sociology
[edit] 1987
- Jerome Seymour Bruner (USA) --- Human psychology
- Phillip V. Tobias (South Africa) --- Physical anthropology
- Richard W. Southern (UK) --- Medieval history
[edit] 1986
- Jean Rivero (France) --- Basic human rights
- Otto Neugebauer (Austria / USA) --- History of science
- Roger Revelle (USA) --- Oceanography / climatology
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
[edit] 1985
- Ernst H.J. Gombrich (Austria / UK) --- History of western art
- Jean-Pierre Serre (France) --- Mathematics
[edit] 1984
- Jan Hendrik Oort (Netherlands) --- Astrophysics
- Jean Starobinski (Switzerland) --- History and criticism of the literatures
- Sewall Wright (USA) --- Genetics
[edit] 1983
- Edward Shils (USA) --- Sociology
- Ernst Mayr (Germany / USA) --- Zoology
- Francesco Gabrieli (Italy) --- Oriental studies
[edit] 1982
- Jean-Baptiste Duroselle (France) --- Social sciences
- Kenneth Vivian Thimann (UK / USA) --- Pure and applied botany
- Massimo Pallottino (Italy) --- Sciences of antiquity
[edit] 1981
- Dan McKenzie (UK), Drummond Matthews (UK) and Frederick Vine (UK) --- Geology and geophysics
- Josef Pieper (Germany) --- Philosophy
- Paul Reuter (France) --- International public law
[edit] 1980
- Enrico Bombieri (Italy) --- Mathematics
- Hassan Fathy (Egypt) --- Architecture and town planning
- Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina) --- Philology, linguistics and literary criticism
[edit] < 1980
[edit] 1979
- Ernest Labrousse (France) and Giuseppe Tucci (Italy) --- History
- Jean Piaget (Switzerland) --- Social and political sciences
- Torbjörn Caspersson (Sweden) --- Biology
[edit] 1978
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Yugoslavia) --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
[edit] 1962
- Andrey Kolmogorov (Russia) --- Mathematics
- Karl von Frisch (Austria) --- Biology
- Paul Hindemith (Germany) --- Music
- Pope John XXIII (Italy) --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
- Samuel Eliot Morison (USA) --- History
[edit] 1961
- Nobel Foundation (Sweden) --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
[edit] External links
- The Balzan Foundation - Official site
- list of Balzan prizewinners
