The VIZE 97 Prize (also The Vision 97 Award,[1] in Czech: Cena Nadace Dagmar a Václava Havlových VIZE 97) is an international prize awarded to significant thinkers by the Dagmar and Václav Havel Foundation VIZE 97 (Nadace Dagmar a Václava Havlových VIZE 97). From 1999, it is awarded annually to people, who through their work "cross the traditional framework of scientific knowledge, contribute to the understanding of science as an integral part of general culture, and in an unconventional way deal with the fundamental questions of knowledge, being and human existence." The prize is awarded in Prague, Czech Republic, and the laureates receive the "crosier of St. Adalbert of Prague."
| Year | Laureate | Nationality and profession | |
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| 1999 | Karl H. Pribram | American neurosurgeon, psychologist and psychiatrist[2] | |
| 2000 | Umberto Eco | Italian semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist[3] | |
| 2001 |
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Zdeněk Neubauer | Czech philosopher and biologist[4] |
| 2002 | Joseph Weizenbaum | American computer scientist and thinker of German origin[5] | |
| 2003 | Robert B. Reich | American economist[6] | |
| 2004 | Petr Vopěnka | Czech mathematician and philosopher[7] | |
| 2005 | Philip Zimbardo | American psychologist[8] | |
| 2006 | Zygmunt Bauman | Polish sociologist[9] | |
| 2007 | Stanislav Grof | American psychologist and psychiatrist of Czech origin[10] | |
| 2008 | Julia Kristeva | Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst[11] | |
| 2009 | Václav Cílek | Czech geologist and writer[12] | |
| 2010 |
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Konrad Paul Liessmann | Austrian philosopher and literary theorist[13] |
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