The Balzan Prize#
aims is to promote culture, the sciences, and the most meritorious initiatives in the cause of humanity, peace, and fraternity among peoples throughout the world.
Academia Europaea Balzan Prize Awardees#
- 2023 Eske Willerslev - Evolution of Humankind: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution
- 2023 David Damrosch - World Literature
- 2023 Heino Falcke - High resolution images: from planetary to cosmic objects
- 2022 Dorthe Dahl-Jensen - Glaciation and Ice-Sheet Dynamics
- 2022 Hans Oerlemans - Glaciation and Ice-Sheet Dynamics
- 2020 Susan Trumbore - Earth System Dynamics
- 2020 Jean-Marie Tarascon - Environmental Challenges: Materials Science for Renewable Energy
- 2019 Michael Cook - Islamic Studies
- 2019 Luigi Ambrosio - Theory of Partial Differential Equations
- 2019 Erika von Mutius - Pathophysiology of respiration: from basic sciences to the bedside
- 2019 Werner Seeger - Pathophysiology of respiration: from basic sciences to the bedside
- 2018 Éva Kondorosi - Chemical Ecology
- 2018 Jürgen Osterhammel - Global History
- 2018 Marilyn Strathern - Social Anthropology
- 2017 Aleida Assmann - Collective Memory
- 2017 Jan Assmann - Collective Memory
- 2016 Piero Boitani - Comparative Literature
- 2016 Reinhard Jahn - Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, including neurodegenerative and developmental aspects
- 2016 Federico Capasso - Applied Photonics
- 2015 Hans Belting (1935 - 2023) - History of European Art (1300-1700)
- 2015 Francis Halzen - Astroparticle Physics including neutrino and gamma-ray observation
- 2014 Mario Torelli (1937 - 2020) - Classical Archaeology
- 2013 Pascale Cossart - Infectious diseases: basic and clinical aspects
- 2013 Alain Aspect - Quantum Information Processing and Communication
- 2013 Manuel Castells - Sociology
- 2012 David Baulcombe - Epigenetics
- 2012 Kurt Lambeck - Solid Earth Sciences, with emphasis on interdisciplinary research
- 2012 Reinhard Strohm - Musicology
- 2010 Carlo Ginzburg - European History (1400 - 1700)
- 2009 Paolo Rossi Monti (1923 - 2012) - History of Science
- 2009 Terence Cave - Literature since 1500
- 2006 Quentin Skinner - Political thought: history and theory
- 2006 Ludwig Finscher (1930 - 2020) - History of western music since 1600
- 2005 Peter Hall (1932 - 2014) - The social and cultural history of cities since the beginning of the 16th century
- 2004 Michael Marmot - Epidemiology
- 2000 Ilkka Hanski (1953 - 2016) - Ecological sciences
- 1999 Mikhail Gromov - Mathematics
- 1999 John Elliott (1930 - 2022) - History 1500-1800
- 1998 Robert McCredie May (1936 - 2020) - Biodiversity
- 1993 Wolfgang H. Berger (1937 - 2017) - Paleontology with special reference to oceanography
- 1993 Jean Leclant (1920 - 2011) - Art and archaeology of the ancient world
- 1991 Vitorino Magalhães Godinho (1918 - 2011) - History: The emergence of Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries
- 1990 Walter Burkert (1931 - 2015) - Study of the ancient world (Mediterranean area)
- 1989 Emmanuel Lévinas (1905 - 1995) - Philosophy
- 1989 Martin John Rees - High energy astrophysics
