International Balzan Prize Foundation -

Balzan Prize

The Prizes

The Balzan Prize’s aim is to foster culture, the sciences and the most meritorious initiatives in the cause of humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples throughout the world.

The Prizes are awarded in the subject areas:
literature, moral sciences, and the arts;
physical, mathematical and natural sciences and medicine;
humanities, peace and brotherhood among peoples.

The four subject areas, two in literature, the moral sciences and the arts, and two in the physical, mathematical and natural sciences and medicine, change every year. No more than four prizes may be awarded in any one year.

As stipulated in the Articles of the Foundation, the frequency of the special Prize for Humanity, Peace and Brotherhood among Peoples is normally at intervals of no less than three years.

Premi Balzan - Annual publication

This annual publication contains all of the material pertaining to the Prizewinners for the year in question (laudationes, speeches, papers).

Balzan’s One Hundred Prize Winners - Libri Scheiwiller, Milan 2005

In 2004 the International Balzan Foundation reached the goal of 100 prize winners, which gave rise to the publication of Balzan's One Hundred Prize Winners, encompassing people from all over the world and many different disciplines worthy of recognition and promotion regardless of nationality, race or creed.