Prizewinners

The four annual Balzan Prizes are awarded to scholars and scientists who have distinguished themselves in their fields on an international level. The Balzan Prize for Humanity, Peace, and Fraternity among Peoples is a special prize awarded at intervals of no less than three years.

2001

2001 Balzan Prize for History of Architecture

France 2001

Marc Fumaroli

2001 Balzan Prize for Literary History and Criticism (post 1500)

France 2001

Jean-Pierre Changeux

2001 Balzan Prize for Cognitive Neurosciences

France 2001

Claude Lorius

2001 Balzan Prize for Climatology

2000

Germany 2000

Michael Stolleis

2000 Balzan Prize for Legal History since 1500

2000 Balzan Prize for Classical Antiquity

Finland 2000

Ilkka Hanski

2000 Balzan Prize for Ecological Sciences

Switzerland 2000

Michel Mayor

2000 Balzan Prize for Instrumentation and Techniques in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Pakistan/India 2000

Abdul Sattar Edhi

2000 Balzan Prize for Humanity, Peace and Fraternity among Peoples

1999

UK 1999

John Elliott

1999 Balzan Prize for History, 1500-1800

France 1999

Paul Ricoeur

1999 Balzan Prize for Philosophy

USA/Italy 1999

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

1999 Balzan Prize for the Science of Human Origins

France/Russia 1999

Mikhael Gromov

1999 Balzan Prize for Mathematics

1998

USA 1998

Harmon Craig

1998 Balzan Prize for Geochemistry

UK/Australia 1998

Robert McCredie May

1998 Balzan Prize for Biodiversity

USA/Poland 1998

Andrzej Walicki

1998 Balzan Prize for the Cultural and Social History of the Slavonic World

1997

1997 Balzan Prize for History and Philosophy of Science

1997 Balzan Prize for Epidemiology

USA/Sri Lanka 1997

Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah

1997 Balzan Prize for Social Anthropology

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