List of Balzan Prize recipients

This is a list of recipients of the Balzan Prize, one of the world's most prestigious academic awards.

1960s–1970s
1961
1962
1978
  • Mother Teresa of Calcutta (India) --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
1979

1980s
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
  • Jan Hendrik Oort (Netherlands) --- Astrophysics
  • Jean Starobinski (Switzerland) --- History and criticism of the literatures
  • Sewall Wright (United States) --- Genetics
1985
1986
1987
  • Jerome Seymour Bruner (United States) --- Human psychology
  • Phillip V. Tobias (South Africa) --- Physical anthropology
  • Richard W. Southern (United Kingdom) --- Medieval history
1988
  • Michael Evenari (Israel) and Otto Ludwig Lange (Germany) --- Applied botany (incl. ecological aspects)
  • René Étiemble (France) --- Comparative literature
  • Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt (Israel) --- Sociology
1989
  • Emmanuel Lévinas (France / Lithuania) --- Philosophy
  • Leo Pardi (Italy) --- Ethologie
  • Martin John Rees (United Kingdom) --- High energy astrophysics

1990s
1990
  • James Freeman Gilbert (United States) --- Geophysics (solid earth)
  • Pierre Lalive d'Epinay (Switzerland) --- Private international law
  • Walter Burkert (Germany) --- Study of the ancient world (Mediterranean area)
1991
1992
  • Armand Borel (Switzerland) --- Mathematics
  • Ebrahim M. Samba (Gambia) --- Preventive medicine
  • Giovanni Macchia (Italy) --- History and criticism of the literatures
1993
  • Jean Leclant (France) --- Art and archaeology of the ancient world
  • Lothar Gall (Germany) --- History: societies of the 19th and 20th centuries
  • Wolfgang H. Berger (Germany / United States) --- Paleontology with special reference to oceanography
1994
  • Fred Hoyle (United Kingdom) and Martin Schwarzschild (Germany / United States) --- Astrophysics (evolution of stars)
  • Norberto Bobbio (Italy) --- Law and political science (governments and democracy)
  • René Couteaux (France) --- Biology (cell structure with special reference to the nervous system)
1995
  • Alan J. Heeger (United States) --- Science of new non-biological materials
  • Carlo M. Cipolla (Italy) --- Economic history
  • Yves Bonnefoy (France) --- Art history and art criticism (as applied to European art from the Middle Ages to our times)
1996
1997
1998
  • Andrzej Walicki (Poland / United States) --- History: the cultural and social history of the Slavonic world from the reign of Catherine the Great to the Russian revolutions of 1917
  • Harmon Craig (United States) --- Geochemistry
  • Robert McCredie May (United Kingdom / Australia) --- Biodiversity
1999

2000s
2000
  • Ilkka Hanski (Finland) --- Ecological sciences
  • Martin Litchfield West (United Kingdom) --- Classical antiquity
  • Michael Stolleis (Germany) --- Legal history since 1500
  • Michel G.E. Mayor (Switzerland) --- Instrumentation and techniques in astronomy and astrophysics
  • Abdul Sattar Edhi (Pakistan) --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
2001
  • Claude Lorius (France) --- Climatology
  • James Sloss Ackerman (United States) --- History of architecture (including town planning and landscape design)
  • Jean-Pierre Changeux (France) --- Cognitive neurosciences
  • Marc Fumaroli (France) --- Literary history and criticism (post 1500)
2002
2003
2004
  • Andrew Colin Renfrew (United Kingdom) --- Prehistoric Archaeology
  • Michael Marmot (United Kingdom) --- Epidemiology
  • Nikki R. Keddie (United States) --- The Islamic world from the end of the 19th to the end of the 20th century
  • Pierre Deligne (Belgium) --- Mathematics
  • Community of Sant'Egidio --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
2005
  • Lothar Ledderose (Germany) --- History of the art of Asia
  • Peter Hall (United Kingdom) --- The social and cultural history of cities since the beginning of the 16th century
  • Peter R. Grant (United Kingdom) and Rosemary Grant (United States) --- Population biology
  • Russell J. Hemley (United States) and Ho-kwang (David) Mao (China) --- Mineral physics
2006
  • Ludwig Finscher (Germany) --- History of western music since 1600
  • Quentin Skinner (United Kingdom) --- Political thought: history and theory
  • Andrew Lange (United States) and Paolo de Bernardis (Italy) --- Observational astronomy and astrophysics
  • Elliott M. Meyerowitz (United States) and Christopher R. Somerville (Canada) --- Plant molecular genetics
2007
  • Sumio Iijima (Japan) --- Nanoscience
  • Bruce A. Beutler (United States) and Jules A. Hoffmann (France) --- Innate Immunity
  • Michel Zink (France) --- European Literature (1000 - 1500)
  • Rosalyn Higgins (United Kingdom) --- International Law since 1945
  • Karlheinz Böhm (Austria) --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
2008
  • Maurizio Calvesi (Italy) --- The Visual Arts since 1700
  • Thomas Nagel (Serbia / United States) --- Moral Philosophy
  • Ian H. Frazer (Australia) --- Preventive Medicine, including Vaccination
  • Wallace S. Broecker (United States) --- Science of Climate Change
2009
  • Terence Cave (United Kingdom) --- Literature since 1500
  • Michael Grätzel (Germany / Switzerland) --- Science of New Materials
  • Brenda Milner (United Kingdom / Canada) --- Cognitive Neurosciences
  • Paolo Rossi Monti (Italy) --- History of Science

2010s
2010
  • Manfred Brauneck (Germany) --- History of theatre in all its aspects
  • Carlo Ginzburg (Italy) --- European History (1400 - 1700)
  • Jacob Palis (Brazil) --- Mathematics (pure or applied)
  • Shinya Yamanaka (Japan) --- Stem Cells: Biology and potential applications
2011
  • Peter Brown (Ireland) --- Ancient History (The Graeco-Roman World)
  • Bronislaw Baczko (Poland) --- Enlightenment Studies
  • Russell Scott Lande (United States / United Kingdom) --- Theoretical Biology or Bioinformatics
  • Joseph Ivor Silk (United States / United Kingdom) --- The Early Universe (From the Planck Time to the First Galaxies)
2012
  • Ronald Dworkin (United States) --- Jurisprudence
  • Reinhard Strohm (Germany) --- Musicology
  • Kurt Lambeck (Australia) --- Solid Earth Sciences, with emphasis on interdisciplinary research
  • David Baulcombe (United Kingdom) --- Epigenetics
2013
2014
  • Mario Torelli (Italy) --- Classical Archaeology
  • Ian Hacking (Canada) --- Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind
  • G. David Tilman (United States) --- Basic and/or applied Plant Ecology
  • Dennis Sullivan (United States) --- Mathematics (pure or applied)
  • Vivre en Famille (France) --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
2015
  • Hans Belting (Germany) --- History of European Art (1300-1700)
  • Joel Mokyr (Netherland / United States / Israel) --- Economic History
  • Francis Halzen (Belgium / United States) --- Astroparticle Physics including neutrino and gamma-ray observation
  • David Michael Karl (United States) --- Oceanography
2016
  • Piero Boitani (Italy) --- Comparative Literature
  • Reinhard Jahn (Germany) --- Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, including neurodegenerative and developmental aspects
  • Federico Capasso (Italy) --- Applied Photonics
  • Robert Keohane (United States) --- International Relations: History and Theory
2017
2018
2019
  • Jacques Aumont (France) --- Film Studies
  • Michael Cook (United States / United Kingdom) --- Islamic Studies
  • Luigi Ambrosio (Italy) --- Theory of Partial Differential Equations
  • Erika von Mutius, Klaus F. Rabe, Werner Seeger and Tobias Welte (all Germany) --- Pathophysiology of respiration: from basic sciences to the bedside
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