Switzerland 1979

Jean Piaget

1979 Balzan Prize for Social and Political Science

Founder of genetic epistemology, initiator of that fundamental current of study which investigates the child’s cognitive and social development, thus striving to grasp the most complex processes of adjustment and mastery of the environment.

Laudatio

Université de Genève

* 1896 †1980

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