List of Balzan Prize recipients

1960s–1970s

• Nobel Foundation --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples

• Andrey Kolmogorov --- Mathematics
• Karl von Frisch --- Biology
• Paul Hindemith --- Music
• Samuel Eliot Morison --- History
• Pope John XXIII --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples

• Mother Teresa of Calcutta --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples

• Ernest Labrousse and Giuseppe Tucci --- History
• Jean Piaget --- Social and political sciences
• Torbjörn Caspersson --- Biology

  1980s

• Enrico Bombieri --- Mathematics
• Hassan Fathy --- Architecture and town planning
• Jorge Luis Borges --- Philology, linguistics and literary criticism

• Dan McKenzie, Drummond Matthews and Frederick Vine --- Geology and geophysics
• Josef Pieper --- Philosophy
• Paul Reuter --- International public law

• Jean-Baptiste Duroselle --- Social sciences
• Kenneth Vivian Thimann --- Pure and applied botany
• Massimo Pallottino --- Sciences of antiquity

• Edward Shils --- Sociology
• Ernst Mayr --- Zoology
• Francesco Gabrieli --- Oriental studies

• Jan Hendrik Oort --- Astrophysics
• Jean Starobinski --- History and criticism of the literatures
• Sewall Wright --- Genetics

• Ernst H.J. Gombrich --- History of western art
• Jean-Pierre Serre --- Mathematics

• Jean Rivero --- Basic human rights
• Otto Neugebauer --- History of science
• Roger Revelle --- Oceanography / climatology
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples

• Jerome Seymour Bruner --- Human psychology
• Phillip V. Tobias --- Physical anthropology
• Richard W. Southern --- Medieval history

• Michael Evenari and --- Applied botany
• René Étiemble --- Comparative literature
• Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt --- Sociology

• Emmanuel Lévinas --- Philosophy
• Leo Pardi --- Ethologie
• Martin John Rees --- High energy astrophysics

  1990s

• James Freeman Gilbert --- Geophysics
• Pierre Lalive d'Epinay --- Private international law
• Walter Burkert --- Study of the ancient world

• György Ligeti --- Music
• John Maynard Smith --- Genetics and evolution
• Vitorino Magalhães Godinho --- History: The emergence of Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries
• Abbé Pierre --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples

• Armand Borel --- Mathematics
• --- Preventive medicine
• Giovanni Macchia --- History and criticism of the literatures

• Jean Leclant --- Art and archaeology of the ancient world
• Lothar Gall --- History: societies of the 19th and 20th centuries
• Wolfgang H. Berger --- Paleontology with special reference to oceanography

• Fred Hoyle and Martin Schwarzschild --- Astrophysics
• Norberto Bobbio --- Law and political science
• --- Biology

• Alan J. Heeger --- Science of new non-biological materials
• Carlo M. Cipolla --- Economic history
• Yves Bonnefoy --- Art history and art criticism

• Arno Borst --- History: medieval cultures
• Arnt Eliassen --- Meteorology
• Stanley Hoffmann --- Political sciences: contemporary international relations
• International Committee of the Red Cross --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples

• Charles Coulston Gillispie --- History and philosophy of science
• Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah --- Social sciences: social anthropology
• Thomas Wilson Meade --- Epidemiology

• Andrzej Walicki --- 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 --- Geochemistry
• Robert McCredie May --- Biodiversity

• John Elliott --- History 1500-1800
• Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza --- Science of human origins
• Mikhail Gromov --- Mathematics
• Paul Ricœur --- Philosophy

  2000s

• Ilkka Hanski --- Ecological sciences
• Martin Litchfield West --- Classical antiquity
• Michael Stolleis --- Legal history since 1500
• Michel G.E. Mayor --- Instrumentation and techniques in astronomy and astrophysics
• Abdul Sattar Edhi --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples

• Claude Lorius --- Climatology
• James Sloss Ackerman --- History of architecture
• Jean-Pierre Changeux --- Cognitive neurosciences
• Marc Fumaroli --- Literary history and criticism

• Anthony Grafton --- History of the humanities
• Dominique Schnapper --- Sociology
• Walter J. Gehring --- Developmental biology
• Xavier Le Pichon --- Geology

• Eric Hobsbawm --- European history since 1900
• Reinhard Genzel --- Infrared astronomy
• Serge Moscovici --- Social psychology
• Wen-Hsiung Li --- Genetics and evolution

• Andrew Colin Renfrew --- Prehistoric Archaeology
• Michael Marmot --- Epidemiology
• Nikki R. Keddie --- The Islamic world from the end of the 19th to the end of the 20th century
• Pierre Deligne --- Mathematics
• Community of Sant'Egidio --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples

• Lothar Ledderose --- History of the art of Asia
• Peter Hall --- The social and cultural history of cities since the beginning of the 16th century
• Peter R. Grant and Rosemary Grant --- Population biology
• Russell J. Hemley and Ho-kwang Mao --- Mineral physics

• Ludwig Finscher --- History of western music since 1600
• Quentin Skinner --- Political thought: history and theory
• Andrew Lange and --- Observational astronomy and astrophysics
• Elliott M. Meyerowitz and Christopher R. Somerville --- Plant molecular genetics

• Sumio Iijima --- Nanoscience
• Bruce A. Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann --- Innate Immunity
• Michel Zink --- European Literature
• Rosalyn Higgins --- International Law since 1945
• Karlheinz Böhm --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples

• Maurizio Calvesi --- The Visual Arts since 1700
• Thomas Nagel --- Moral Philosophy
• Ian H. Frazer --- Preventive Medicine, including Vaccination
• Wallace S. Broecker --- Science of Climate Change

• Terence Cave --- Literature since 1500
• Michael Grätzel --- Science of New Materials
• Brenda Milner --- Cognitive Neurosciences
• Paolo Rossi Monti --- History of Science

  2010s

• Manfred Brauneck --- History of theatre in all its aspects
• Carlo Ginzburg --- European History
• Jacob Palis --- Mathematics
• Shinya Yamanaka --- Stem Cells: Biology and potential applications

• Peter Brown --- Ancient History
• Bronislaw Baczko --- Enlightenment Studies
• Russell Scott Lande --- Theoretical Biology or Bioinformatics
• Joseph Ivor Silk --- The Early Universe

• Ronald Dworkin --- Jurisprudence
• Reinhard Strohm --- Musicology
• Kurt Lambeck --- Solid Earth Sciences, with emphasis on interdisciplinary research
• David Baulcombe --- Epigenetics

• André Vauchez --- Medieval History
• Manuel Castells --- Sociology
• Alain Aspect --- Quantum Information Processing and Communication
• Pascale Cossart --- Infectious diseases: basic and clinical aspects

• Mario Torelli --- Classical Archaeology
• Ian Hacking --- Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind
• G. David Tilman --- Basic and/or applied Plant Ecology
• Dennis Sullivan --- Mathematics
• Vivre en Famille --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples

• Hans Belting --- History of European Art
• Joel Mokyr --- Economic History
• Francis Halzen --- Astroparticle Physics including neutrino and gamma-ray observation
• --- Oceanography

• Piero Boitani --- Comparative Literature
• Reinhard Jahn --- Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, including neurodegenerative and developmental aspects
• Federico Capasso --- Applied Photonics
• Robert Keohane --- International Relations: History and Theory

• Aleida Assmann and Jan Assmann --- Collective Memory
• Bina Agarwal --- Gender Studies
• Robert D. Schreiber and James P. Allison --- Immunological Approaches in Cancer Therapy
• --- The Sun’s Planetary System and Exoplanets

• Eva Kondorosi --- Chemical Ecology
• Detlef Lohse --- Fluid Dynamics
• Jürgen Osterhammel --- Global History
• Marilyn Strathern --- Social Anthropology
• Terre des hommes Foundation --- Humanity, Peace and Fraternity among Peoples

• Jacques Aumont --- Film Studies
• Michael Cook --- Islamic Studies
• Luigi Ambrosio --- Theory of Partial Differential Equations
• Erika von Mutius,, and Tobias Welte --- Pathophysiology of respiration: from basic sciences to the bedside