This is a list of recipients of theBalzan Prize, one of the world's most prestigious academic awards. The InternationalBalzan Prize Foundation awards four annual monetary prizes to people or organizations who have made outstanding achievements in the humanities, natural sciences, culture, and peace on an international level. The Prizes are awarded in four subject areas: "two in literature, the moral sciences and the arts" and "two in the physical, mathematical and natural sciences and medicine."[1] The special Prize for Humanity, Peace and Fraternity is presented at intervals of every three years or longer.
- 1961
- 1962
- 1978
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta (India) --- Humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples
- 1979
- 1980
- 1981
- 1982
- 1983
- 1984
- 1985
- 1986
- 1987
- 1988
- 1989
- 1990
- 1991
- 1992
- 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
- 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
- 2000
- 2001
- 2002
- 2003
- 2004
- 2005
- 2006
- 2007
- 2008
- 2009
- 2010
- 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
- 2013
- 2014
- 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 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
- 2020
- 2021
- 2022
- 2023
- 2024
- 2025
