List of Balzan Prize recipients
This is a list of recipients of the Balzan Prize, one of the world's most prestigious academic awards. The International Balzan Prize Foundation awards four annual monetary prizes to people or organizations who have made outstanding achievements in the humanities, natural sciences, culture, and peace on an international level. The Prizes are awarded in four subject areas: "two in literature, the moral sciences and the arts" and "two in the physical, mathematical and natural sciences and medicine." The special Prize for Humanity, Peace and Fraternity is presented at intervals of every three years or longer.
1960s–1970s
;1961- Nobel Foundation --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
- Andrey Kolmogorov --- Mathematics
- Karl von Frisch --- Biology
- Paul Hindemith --- Music
- Samuel Eliot Morison --- History
- Pope John XXIII --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
- Ernest Labrousse and Giuseppe Tucci --- History
- Jean Piaget --- Social and political sciences
- Torbjörn Caspersson --- Biology
1980s
;1980- Enrico Bombieri --- Mathematics
- Hassan Fathy --- Architecture and town planning
- Jorge Luis Borges --- Philology, linguistics and literary criticism
- Dan McKenzie, Drummond Matthews and Frederick Vine --- Geology and geophysics
- Josef Pieper --- Philosophy
- Paul Reuter --- International public law
- Jean-Baptiste Duroselle --- Social sciences
- Kenneth Vivian Thimann --- Pure and applied botany
- Massimo Pallottino --- Sciences of antiquity
- Edward Shils --- Sociology
- Ernst Mayr --- Zoology
- Francesco Gabrieli --- Oriental studies
- Jan Hendrik Oort --- Astrophysics
- Jean Starobinski --- History and criticism of the literatures
- Sewall Wright --- Genetics
- Ernst H. J. Gombrich --- History of western art
- Jean-Pierre Serre --- Mathematics
- --- Basic human rights
- Otto Neugebauer --- History of science
- Roger Revelle --- Oceanography / climatology
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
- Jerome Seymour Bruner --- Human psychology
- Phillip V. Tobias --- Physical anthropology
- Richard W. Southern --- Medieval history
- Michael Evenari and Otto Ludwig Lange --- Applied botany
- René Étiemble --- Comparative literature
- Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt --- Sociology
- Emmanuel Lévinas --- Philosophy
- Leo Pardi --- Ethologie
- Martin John Rees --- High energy astrophysics
1990s
;1990- James Freeman Gilbert --- Geophysics
- Pierre Lalive d'Epinay --- Private international law
- Walter Burkert --- Study of the ancient world
- György Ligeti --- Music
- John Maynard Smith --- Genetics and evolution
- Vitorino Magalhães Godinho --- History: The emergence of Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries
- Abbé Pierre --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
- Armand Borel --- Mathematics
- --- Preventive medicine
- Giovanni Macchia --- History and criticism of the literatures
- Jean Leclant --- Art and archaeology of the ancient world
- Lothar Gall --- History: societies of the 19th and 20th centuries
- Wolfgang H. Berger --- Paleontology with special reference to oceanography
- Fred Hoyle and Martin Schwarzschild --- Astrophysics
- Norberto Bobbio --- Law and political science
- --- Biology
- Alan J. Heeger --- Science of new non-biological materials
- Carlo M. Cipolla --- Economic history
- Yves Bonnefoy --- Art history and art criticism
- --- History: medieval cultures
- Arnt Eliassen --- Meteorology
- Stanley Hoffmann --- Political sciences: contemporary international relations
- International Committee of the Red Cross --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
- Charles Coulston Gillispie --- History and philosophy of science
- Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah --- Social sciences: social anthropology
- Thomas Wilson Meade --- Epidemiology
- Andrzej Walicki --- 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 --- Geochemistry
- Robert McCredie May --- Biodiversity
- John Elliott --- History 1500–1800
- Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza --- Science of human origins
- Mikhail Gromov --- Mathematics
- Paul Ricœur --- Philosophy
2000s
;2000- Ilkka Hanski --- Ecological sciences
- Martin Litchfield West --- Classical antiquity
- Michael Stolleis --- Legal history since 1500
- Michel G.E. Mayor --- Instrumentation and techniques in astronomy and astrophysics
- Abdul Sattar Edhi --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
- Claude Lorius --- Climatology
- James Sloss Ackerman --- History of architecture
- Jean-Pierre Changeux --- Cognitive neurosciences
- Marc Fumaroli --- Literary history and criticism
- Anthony Grafton --- History of the humanities
- Dominique Schnapper --- Sociology
- Walter J. Gehring --- Developmental biology
- Xavier Le Pichon --- Geology
- Eric Hobsbawm --- European history since 1900
- Reinhard Genzel --- Infrared astronomy
- Serge Moscovici --- Social psychology
- Wen-Hsiung Li --- Genetics and evolution
- Andrew Colin Renfrew --- Prehistoric Archaeology
- Michael Marmot --- Epidemiology
- Nikki R. Keddie --- The Islamic world from the end of the 19th to the end of the 20th century
- Pierre Deligne --- Mathematics
- Community of Sant'Egidio --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
- Lothar Ledderose --- History of the art of Asia
- Peter Hall --- The social and cultural history of cities since the beginning of the 16th century
- Peter R. Grant and Rosemary Grant --- Population biology
- Russell J. Hemley and Ho-kwang (David) Mao --- Mineral physics
- Ludwig Finscher --- History of western music since 1600
- Quentin Skinner --- Political thought: history and theory
- Andrew Lange and --- Observational astronomy and astrophysics
- Elliott M. Meyerowitz and Christopher R. Somerville --- Plant molecular genetics
- Sumio Iijima --- Nanoscience
- Bruce A. Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann --- Innate Immunity
- Michel Zink --- European Literature
- Rosalyn Higgins --- International Law since 1945
- Karlheinz Böhm --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
- Maurizio Calvesi --- The Visual Arts since 1700
- Thomas Nagel --- Moral Philosophy
- Ian H. Frazer --- Preventive Medicine, including Vaccination
- Wallace S. Broecker --- Science of Climate Change
- Terence Cave --- Literature since 1500
- Michael Grätzel --- Science of New Materials
- Brenda Milner --- Cognitive Neurosciences
- Paolo Rossi Monti --- History of Science
2010s
;2010- --- History of theatre in all its aspects
- Carlo Ginzburg --- European History
- Jacob Palis --- Mathematics
- Shinya Yamanaka --- Stem Cells: Biology and potential applications
- Peter Brown --- Ancient History
- Bronislaw Baczko --- Enlightenment Studies
- Russell Scott Lande --- Theoretical Biology or Bioinformatics
- Joseph Ivor Silk --- The Early Universe
- Ronald Dworkin --- Jurisprudence
- Reinhard Strohm --- Musicology
- Kurt Lambeck --- Solid Earth Sciences, with emphasis on interdisciplinary research
- David Baulcombe --- Epigenetics
- André Vauchez --- Medieval History
- Manuel Castells --- Sociology
- Alain Aspect --- Quantum Information Processing and Communication
- Pascale Cossart --- Infectious diseases: basic and clinical aspects
- Mario Torelli --- Classical Archaeology
- Ian Hacking --- Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind
- G. David Tilman --- Basic and/or applied Plant Ecology
- Dennis Sullivan --- Mathematics
- Vivre en Famille --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
- Hans Belting --- History of European Art
- Joel Mokyr --- Economic History
- Francis Halzen --- Astroparticle Physics including neutrino and gamma-ray observation
- David Karl --- Oceanography
- Piero Boitani --- Comparative Literature
- Reinhard Jahn --- Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, including neurodegenerative and developmental aspects
- Federico Capasso --- Applied Photonics
- Robert Keohane --- International Relations: History and Theory
- Aleida Assmann and Jan Assmann --- Collective Memory
- Bina Agarwal --- Gender Studies
- Robert D. Schreiber and James P. Allison --- Immunological Approaches in Cancer Therapy
- Michaël Gillon --- The Sun's Planetary System and Exoplanets
- Éva Kondorosi --- Chemical Ecology
- Detlef Lohse --- Fluid Dynamics
- Jürgen Osterhammel --- Global History
- Marilyn Strathern --- Social Anthropology
- Terre des hommes Foundation --- Humanity, Peace and Fraternity among Peoples
- Jacques Aumont --- Film Studies
- Michael Cook --- Islamic Studies
- Luigi Ambrosio --- Theory of Partial Differential Equations
- Erika von Mutius,, and --- Pathophysiology of respiration: from basic sciences to the bedside
2020s
;2020- Susan Trumbore --- Earth System Dynamics
- Jean-Marie Tarascon --- Environmental Challenges: Materials Science for Renewable Energy
- Joan Martinez Alier --- Environmental Challenges: Responses from the Social Sciences and the Humanities
- Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade --- Human Rights
- Saul Friedländer --- Holocaust and Genocide Studies
- Jeffrey I. Gordon --- Microbiome in Health and Disease
- Alessandra Buonanno and Thibault Damour --- Gravitation: physical and astrophysical aspects
- Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati --- Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Far East
- Robert Langer --- Biomaterials for Nanomedicine and Tissue Engineering
- Martha Nussbaum --- Moral Philosophy
- Dorthe Dahl-Jensen and Hans Oerlemans --- Glaciation and Ice-Sheet Dynamics
- Philip Bohlman --- Ethnomusicology
- David Damrosch --- World Literature
- Jean-Jacques Hublin --- Evolution of Humankind: Paleoanthropology
- Eske Willerslev --- Evolution of Humankind: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution
- Heino Falcke --- High resolution images: from planetary to cosmic objects
- John Braithwaite --- Restorative Justice
- Lorraine Daston --- History of Modern and Contemporary Science
- Michael N. Hall --- Biological Mechanisms of Ageing
- Omar M. Yaghi --- Nanoporous Materials for Environmental Applications
- Josiah Ober --- Athenian Democracy Revisited
- Rosalind Krauss --- History of Contemporary Art
- Christophe Salomon --- Atoms and Ultra-Precise Measurement of Time
- Carl H. June --- Gene and Gene-Modified Cell Therapy