2026 Balzan Prize Subject Descriptions

• The Social Science of Digital Technology
• Jewish Studies
• Biodegradable Polymers from Renewable Sources
• Molecular Evolution: Decoding Patterns of Genomic Change

The subjects are chosen by the General Prize Committee in two general areas:

• literature, moral sciences, and the arts;
• physical, mathematical, and natural sciences, and medicine.
  

In 2026 will also be awarded the Prize for

• Humanity, Peace and Fraternity among Peoples