List of recipients of the Balzan Prize, one of the world's most prestigious academic awards.
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2007
- Sumio Iijima (Japan), Nanoscience
- Bruce A. Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann (USA & 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 and Paolo de Bernardis (USA & Italy), Observational astronomy and astrophysics
- Elliott M. Meyerowitz and Christopher R. Somerville (USA & Canada), Plant molecular genetics
2005 - 2000
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 and Rosemary Grant (UK & USA), Population biology
- Russell J. Hemley and Ho-kwang (David) Mao (USA & 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 and Martin Schwarzschild ( UK, 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 Portugal
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) Germany
1989-1980
1989
- Emmanuel Lévinas (France / Lithuania) Philosophy
- Leo Pardi (Italy) Ethologie
- Martin John Rees (UK) High energy astrophysics
1988
- Michael Evenari and Otto Ludwig Lange (Israel / 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, Drummond Matthews 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 and Giuseppe Tucci (France / 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
- The Balzan Foundation - Official site
- list of Balzan prizewinners
