Balzan Prizes 2019 awarded in Bern

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Today, During the Awards Ceremony at the Federal Palace in Berne, this year’s Balzan Prizes were presented to:

• Jacques Aumont (France) for Film Studies,
• Michael Cook (UK) for Islamic Studies,
• Luigi Ambrosio (Italy) for Theory of Partial Differential Equations,
• the research group composed by Erika von Mutius, Klaus F. Rabe, Werner Seeger and Tobias Welte of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL) (Germany), for Pathophysiology of respiration: from basic sciences to the bedside.

the President of the National Council of the Swiss Confederation Marina Carobbio presented the parchments to the 2019 Prizewinners; the Presidents of the Balzan Foundation “Prize” and “Fund”, Enrico Decleva and Gisèle Girgis-Musy, delivered the official speeches.

The Ceremony was preceded, on Thursday 14 November, by the Balzan Prizewinners Interdisciplinary Forum, a public event dedicated to the Balzan Prize subject areas for the current year, with the Prizewinners playing the prominent role.