List of Balzan Prize recipients

List of Balzan Prize recipients

List of recipients of the Balzan Prize, one of the world's most prestigious academic awards.

2009 - 2000

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

* 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

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

* 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

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

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

2002

* Anthony Grafton (USA) --- History of the humanities
* Dominique Schnapper (France) --- Sociology
* Walter J. Gehring (Switzerland) --- Developmental biology
* Xavier Le Pichon (France) --- Geology

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)

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

1999 - 1990

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

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

* Charles Coulston Gillispie (USA) --- History and philosophy of science
* Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah (Sri Lanka / USA) --- Social sciences: social anthropology
* Thomas Wilson Meade (UK) --- Epidemiology

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

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

* Emmanuel Lévinas (France / Lithuania) --- Philosophy
* Leo Pardi (Italy) --- Ethologie
* Martin John Rees (UK) --- High energy astrophysics

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

* Jerome Seymour Bruner (USA) --- Human psychology
* Phillip V. Tobias (South Africa) --- Physical anthropology
* Richard W. Southern (UK) --- Medieval history

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

1985

* Ernst H.J. Gombrich (Austria / UK) --- History of western art
* Jean-Pierre Serre (France) --- Mathematics

1984

* Jan Hendrik Oort (Netherlands) --- Astrophysics
* Jean Starobinski (Switzerland) --- History and criticism of the literatures
* Sewall Wright (USA) --- Genetics

1983

* Edward Shils (USA) --- Sociology
* Ernst Mayr (Germany / USA) --- Zoology
* Francesco Gabrieli (Italy) --- Oriental studies

1982

* Jean-Baptiste Duroselle (France) --- Social sciences
* Kenneth Vivian Thimann (UK / USA) --- Pure and applied botany
* Massimo Pallottino (Italy) --- Sciences of antiquity

1981

* Dan McKenzie (UK), Drummond Matthews (UK) and Frederick Vine (UK) --- Geology and geophysics
* Josef Pieper (Germany) --- Philosophy
* Paul Reuter (France) --- International public law

1980

* Enrico Bombieri (Italy) --- Mathematics
* Hassan Fathy (Egypt) --- Architecture and town planning
* Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina) --- Philology, linguistics and literary criticism

< 1980

1979

* Ernest Labrousse (France) and Giuseppe Tucci (Italy) --- History
* Jean Piaget (Switzerland) --- Social and political sciences
* Torbjörn Caspersson (Sweden) --- Biology

1978

* Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Yugoslavia) --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples

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

1961

* Nobel Foundation (Sweden) --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples

External links

* [http://www.balzan.com/en/ueberuns/index.cfm The Balzan Foundation] - Official site
* [http://www.balzan.com/en/preistraeger/index.cfm list of Balzan prizewinners]


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