List of Balzan Prize recipients
List of recipients of the Balzan Prize, one of the world's most prestigious academic awards.
2019 - 2010
2011
- Peter Brown (Ireland) --- Ancient History (The Graeco-Roman World)
- Bronislaw Baczko (Poland) --- Enlightenment Studies
- Russell Scott Lande (USA / UK) --- Theoretical Biology or Bioinformatics
- Joseph Ivor Silk (USA / UK) --- The Early Universe (From the Planck Time to the First Galaxies)
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
2009 - 2000
2009
- Terence Cave (UK) --- Literature since 1500
- Michael Grätzel (Germany / Switzerland) --- Science of New Materials
- Brenda Milner (UK / Canada) --- Cognitive Neurosciences
- Paolo Rossi Monti (Italy) --- History of Science
2008
- Maurizio Calvesi (Italy) --- The Visual Arts since 1700
- Thomas Nagel (Serbia / USA) --- Moral Philosophy
- Ian H. Frazer (Australia) --- Preventive Medicine, including Vaccination
- Wallace S. Broecker (USA) --- Science of Climate Change
2007
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
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999 - 1990
1999
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
1997
1996
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)
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)
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
1992
- Armand Borel (Switzerland / USA) --- Mathematics
- Ebrahim M. Samba (Gambia) --- Preventive medicine
- Giovanni Macchia (Italy) --- History and criticism of the literatures
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
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)
1989-1980
1989
1988
- Michael Evenari (Israel) and Otto Ludwig Lange (Germany) --- Applied botany (incl. ecological aspects)
- René Etiemble (France) --- Comparative literature
- Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt (Israel) --- Sociology
1987
1986
1985
1984
1983
- Edward Shils (USA) --- Sociology
- Ernst Mayr (Germany / USA) --- Zoology
- Francesco Gabrieli (Italy) --- Oriental studies
1982
1981
1980
< 1980
1979
1978
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Yugoslavia) --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
1962
1961
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