List of Balzan Prize recipients

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

Contents 1 2006 2 2005 - 2000 2.1 2005 2.2 2004 2.3 2003 2.4 2002 2.5 2001 2.6 2000 3 1999 - 1990 3.1 1999 3.2 1998 3.3 1997 3.4 1996 3.5 1995 3.6 1994 3.7 1993 3.8 1992 3.9 1991 3.10 1990 4 1989-1980 4.1 1989 4.2 1988 4.3 1987 4.4 1986 4.5 1985 4.6 1984 4.7 1983 4.8 1982 4.9 1981 4.10 1980 5 < 1980 5.1 1979 5.2 1978 5.3 1962 5.4 1961 6 External links

[edit] 2006

• Ludwig Finscher
• Quentin Skinner
• Andrew Lange and Paolo de Bernardis
• Elliott M. Meyerowitz and Chris R. Somerville

[edit] 2005 - 2000

[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 and Rosemary Grant (UK & USA), Population biology
• Russell J. Hemley and Ho-kwang (David) Mao (USA & 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 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 refererence 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 Portugal

[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) Germany

[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 and Otto Ludwig Lange (Israel / 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 Peter McKenzie, Drummond Hoyle Matthews and Frederick John 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 and Giuseppe Tucci (France / 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

• Andrej 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