List of Balzan Prize recipients

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

[edit] 2009 - 2000

[edit] 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

[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