The 2025 Balzan Prizewinners
The winners of the 2025 Balzan Prizes are:
- Josiah Ober (USA) – Stanford University for Classics: Athenian Democracy Revisited
- Rosalind Krauss (USA) – Columbia University, for History of Contemporary Art
- Christophe Salomon (France) – Laboratoire Kastler Brossel Paris, for Atoms and Ultra-Precise Measurement of Time
- Carl H. June (USA) – Perelman School of Medicine – University of Pennsylvania, for Gene and Gene-Modified Cell Therapy
The Balzan General Prize Committee based its selections on the soundness, timeliness, and coherence of the candidates’ research, identifying specific factors of excellence in their respective fields of study that might contribute to a deeper understanding today’s world and foster the advancement of knowledge without borders, according to the principles that inspired the institution of the Balzan Foundation.
Each Prizewinner will receive 750,000 CHF (approx. 800,000 EUR, 940,000 USD, 695,000 GBP), half of which must be invested in research.
The announcement was made by the President of the Balzan ‘Prize’ Foundation Maria Cristina Messa and the Chair of the General Prize Committee Marta Cartabia during the traditional meeting in the Sala Buzzati of the Corriere della Sera Foundation in Milan.
