List of Balzan Prize recipients

This is a list of recipients of the Balzan Prize, one of the world's most prestigious academic awards.

1960s–1970s

1961

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

1962

• Andrey Kolmogorov (Soviet Union) --- Mathematics
• Karl von Frisch (Austria) --- Biology
• Paul Hindemith (Germany) --- Music
• Samuel Eliot Morison (United States) --- History
• Pope John XXIII (Italy) --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples

1978

• Mother Teresa of Calcutta (India) --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples

1979

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

1980s

1980

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

1981

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

1982

• Jean-Baptiste Duroselle (France) --- Social sciences
• Kenneth Vivian Thimann (United Kingdom / United States) --- Pure and applied botany
• Massimo Pallottino (Italy) --- Sciences of antiquity

1983

• Edward Shils (United States) --- Sociology
• Ernst Mayr (Germany / United States) --- Zoology
• Francesco Gabrieli (Italy) --- Oriental studies

1984

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

1985

• Ernst H.J. Gombrich (Austria / United Kingdom) --- History of western art
• Jean-Pierre Serre (France) --- Mathematics

1986

• Jean Rivero (France) --- Basic human rights
• Otto Neugebauer (Austria / United States) --- History of science
• Roger Revelle (United States) --- Oceanography / climatology
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples

1987

• Jerome Seymour Bruner (United States) --- Human psychology
• Phillip V. Tobias (South Africa) --- Physical anthropology
• Richard W. Southern (United Kingdom) --- Medieval history

1988

• Michael Evenari (Israel) and Otto Ludwig Lange (Germany) --- Applied botany (incl. ecological aspects)
• René Étiemble (France) --- Comparative literature
• Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt (Israel) --- Sociology

1989

• Emmanuel Lévinas (France / Lithuania) --- Philosophy
• Leo Pardi (Italy) --- Ethologie
• Martin John Rees (United Kingdom) --- High energy astrophysics

1990s

1990

• James Freeman Gilbert (United States) --- Geophysics (solid earth)
• Pierre Lalive d'Epinay (Switzerland) --- Private international law
• Walter Burkert (Germany) --- Study of the ancient world (Mediterranean area)

1991

• György Ligeti (Hungary / Austria) --- Music
• John Maynard Smith (United Kingdom) --- Genetics and evolution
• Vitorino Magalhães Godinho (Portugal) --- History: The emergence of Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries
• Abbé Pierre (Henri Grouèse) (France) --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples

1992

• Armand Borel (Switzerland) --- Mathematics
• Ebrahim M. Samba (Gambia) --- Preventive medicine
• Giovanni Macchia (Italy) --- History and criticism of the literatures

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 / United States) --- Paleontology with special reference to oceanography

1994

• Fred Hoyle (United Kingdom) and Martin Schwarzschild (Germany / United States) --- 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)

1995

• Alan J. Heeger (United States) --- 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)

1996

• Arno Borst (Germany) --- History: medieval cultures
• Arnt Eliassen (Norway) --- Meteorology
• Stanley Hoffmann (Austria / United States / France) --- Political sciences: contemporary international relations
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples

1997

• Charles Coulston Gillispie (United States) --- History and philosophy of science
• Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah (Sri Lanka / United States) --- Social sciences: social anthropology
• Thomas Wilson Meade (United Kingdom) --- Epidemiology

1998

• Andrzej Walicki (Poland / United States) --- 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 (United States) --- Geochemistry
• Robert McCredie May (United Kingdom / Australia) --- Biodiversity

1999

• John Elliott (United Kingdom) --- History 1500-1800
• Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (Italy / United States) --- Science of human origins
• Mikhail Gromov (Russia / France) --- Mathematics
• Paul Ricœur (France) --- Philosophy

2000s

2000

• Ilkka Hanski (Finland) --- Ecological sciences
• Martin Litchfield West (United Kingdom) --- Classical antiquity
• Michael Stolleis (Germany) --- Legal history since 1500
• Michel G.E. Mayor (Switzerland) --- Instrumentation and techniques in astronomy and astrophysics
• Abdul Sattar Edhi (Pakistan) --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples

2001

• Claude Lorius (France) --- Climatology
• James Sloss Ackerman (United States) --- History of architecture (including town planning and landscape design)
• Jean-Pierre Changeux (France) --- Cognitive neurosciences
• Marc Fumaroli (France) --- Literary history and criticism (post 1500)

2002

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

2003

• Eric Hobsbawm (United Kingdom) --- European history since 1900
• Reinhard Genzel (Germany) --- Infrared astronomy
• Serge Moscovici (France) --- Social psychology
• Wen-Hsiung Li (Taiwan / United States) --- Genetics and evolution

2004

• Andrew Colin Renfrew (United Kingdom) --- Prehistoric Archaeology
• Michael Marmot (United Kingdom) --- Epidemiology
• Nikki R. Keddie (United States) --- The Islamic world from the end of the 19th to the end of the 20th century
• Pierre Deligne (Belgium) --- Mathematics
• Community of Sant'Egidio --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples

2005

• Lothar Ledderose (Germany) --- History of the art of Asia
• Peter Hall (United Kingdom) --- The social and cultural history of cities since the beginning of the 16th century
• Peter R. Grant (United Kingdom) and Rosemary Grant (United States) --- Population biology
• Russell J. Hemley (United States) and Ho-kwang (David) Mao (China) --- Mineral physics

2006

• Ludwig Finscher (Germany) --- History of western music since 1600
• Quentin Skinner (United Kingdom) --- Political thought: history and theory
• Andrew Lange (United States) and Paolo de Bernardis (Italy) --- Observational astronomy and astrophysics
• Elliott M. Meyerowitz (United States) and Christopher R. Somerville (Canada) --- Plant molecular genetics

2007

• Sumio Iijima (Japan) --- Nanoscience
• Bruce A. Beutler (United States) and Jules A. Hoffmann (France) --- Innate Immunity
• Michel Zink (France) --- European Literature (1000 - 1500)
• Rosalyn Higgins (United Kingdom) --- International Law since 1945
• Karlheinz Böhm (Austria) --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples

2008

• Maurizio Calvesi (Italy) --- The Visual Arts since 1700
• Thomas Nagel (Serbia / United States) --- Moral Philosophy
• Ian H. Frazer (Australia) --- Preventive Medicine, including Vaccination
• Wallace S. Broecker (United States) --- Science of Climate Change

2009

• Terence Cave (United Kingdom) --- Literature since 1500
• Michael Grätzel (Germany / Switzerland) --- Science of New Materials
• Brenda Milner (United Kingdom / Canada) --- Cognitive Neurosciences
• Paolo Rossi Monti (Italy) --- History of Science

2010s

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

2011

• Peter Brown (Ireland) --- Ancient History (The Graeco-Roman World)
• Bronislaw Baczko (Poland) --- Enlightenment Studies
• Russell Scott Lande (United States / United Kingdom) --- Theoretical Biology or Bioinformatics
• Joseph Ivor Silk (United States / United Kingdom) --- The Early Universe (From the Planck Time to the First Galaxies)

2012

• Ronald Dworkin (United States) --- Jurisprudence
• Reinhard Strohm (Germany) --- Musicology
• Kurt Lambeck (Australia) --- Solid Earth Sciences, with emphasis on interdisciplinary research
• David Baulcombe (United Kingdom) --- Epigenetics

2013

• André Vauchez (France) --- Medieval History
• Manuel Castells (Spain) --- Sociology
• Alain Aspect (France) --- Quantum Information Processing and Communication
• Pascale Cossart (France) --- Infectious diseases: basic and clinical aspects

2014

• Mario Torelli (Italy) --- Classical Archaeology
• Ian Hacking (Canada) --- Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind
• G. David Tilman (United States) --- Basic and/or applied Plant Ecology
• Dennis Sullivan (United States) --- Mathematics (pure or applied)
• Vivre en Famille (France) --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples

2015

• Hans Belting (Germany) --- History of European Art (1300-1700)
• Joel Mokyr (Netherland / United States / Israel) --- Economic History
• Francis Halzen (Belgium / United States) --- Astroparticle Physics including neutrino and gamma-ray observation
• David Michael Karl (United States) --- Oceanography

2016

• Piero Boitani (Italy) --- Comparative Literature
• Reinhard Jahn (Germany) --- Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, including neurodegenerative and developmental aspects
• Federico Capasso (Italy) --- Applied Photonics
• Robert Keohane (United States) --- International Relations: History and Theory

2017

• Aleida Assmann (Germany) and Jan Assmann (Germany) --- Collective Memory
• Bina Agarwal (India / United Kingdom) --- Gender Studies
• Robert D. Schreiber (United States) and James P. Allison (United States) --- Immunological Approaches in Cancer Therapy
• Michaël Gillon (Belgium) --- The Sun’s Planetary System and Exoplanets

2018

• Eva Kondorosi (Hungary / France) --- Chemical Ecology
• Detlef Lohse (Germany) --- Fluid Dynamics
• Jürgen Osterhammel (Germany) --- Global History
• Marilyn Strathern (United Kingdom) --- Social Anthropology
• Terre des hommes Foundation (Switzerland) --- Humanity, Peace and Fraternity among Peoples

External links

• The Balzan Foundation - Official site
• List of Balzan Prizewinners