The Balzan Foundation awarded 750,000 Swiss Francs (approx. EUR 800,000; USD 930,000; GBP 710,000) for each prize. The winners are each required to allocate half of their prize money to funding research projects carried out by young scholars or scientists
Josiah Ober, Rosalind Krauss, Christophe Salomon, Carl H. June
The Ceremony took place in the presence of the President of the Italian Republic in the majestic setting of the Quirinale Palace
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In Milan on 9 September 2024, at 6 pm (CEST/UTC +2): the event will be live-streamed on balzan25.alfapi.net
She succeeds Alberto Quadrio Curzio
New Chairman and Members in the General Prize Committee
David Damrosch, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Eske Willerslev, Heino Falcke, Fondazione Francesca Rava [+ Press Release with Motivations – pdf]
2023 SUBJECT DESCRIPTIONS (Download pdf)
750,000 Swiss Francs (765,000 EUR, 810,000 USD, 666,000 GBP) for each of the four awards.The winners must allocate half of the amount to research projects.
Martha C. Nussbaum, Philip Bohlman, Robert Langer, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen and Johannes Oerlemans
750,000 Swiss Francs for each of the four subjects. The Prizewinners must allocate half of the amount to research projects. [+ Booklet]
The Balzan Prizes 2020 were presented today in Rome by the President of the Italian Republic. During the ceremony, which took place at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the prizes were presented to
It is with great sorrow that the International Balzan Foundation announces the death of Salvatore Veca, Member of the Board of the “Prize” Foundation and editor of the series Balzan Papers.
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Reinhard Genzel,2003 Balzan Prizewinner for Infrared Astronomy, is one of the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics (with Roger Penrose and Andrea Ghez).
Opening Speech of the President of the International Balzan Foundation “Prize” Alberto Quadrio Curzio
On May 4, 2020, Alberto Quadrio-Curzio was elected President of the International Balzan Foundation “Prize” in Milan.
On behalf of the Boards of the International Balzan Foundation “Prize” in Milan and “Fund” in Zurich, the Vice President of the “Prize” Foundation Professor Alberto Quadrio Curzio expressed his great regret in announcing the passing of President Professor Enrico Decleva, in office since 2013.
Manuel Castells, 2013 Balzan Prize for Sociology, has been appointed Minister of Universities by the Spanish government, and was sworn in by the King of Spain on 13 January 2020.
750,000 Swiss Francs (approx. €680 000, $760 000, GBP 620 000) for each of the four subjects.Prizewinners must allocate half of the amount to research projects
Michel Mayor, 2000 Balzan Prizewinner for Instrumentation and Techniques in Astronomy and Astrophysics, is one of the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics (with Didier Queloz and James Peebles).
The Balzan Prize and the Foundation are now on Twitter (@BalzanPrize) and on LinkedIn (Balzan Foundation).
The Balzan Prizes 2018 were presented today by the President of the Italian Republic, during the ceremony, which took place at the Auditorium of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
On 22 November in Rome the first issue of the Balzan Papers, edited by Salvatore Veca, was presented.
LUCIANO MAIANI is the new Chairman of the Balzan General Prize CommitteeDONATELLA DELLA PORTA and SALWA EL-SHAWAN CASTELO-BRANCO have been nominated as Members
Tuesday, 24 October 2017 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM“Oppenheim’s International Law: United Nations” with author Rosalyn HigginsUNITED NATIONS BOOKSHOP New York – USA
During the Awards Ceremony at the Federal Palace in Berne, this year’s Balzan Prizes were presented
The names of the 2017 Balzan Prizewinners were disclosed today in a public announcement
Børge Diderichsen and Nathalie Heinich have been appointed to the General Prize Committee of the International Balzan Foundation “Prize”. They replace Marc Van Montagu and Dominique Schnapper.
Walter Rauhe met with Reinhard Strohm for a dialogue on some of the many subjects that emerged from his important and complex Research Project..
Gisèle Girgis-Musy named as Chairman of the Balzan “Fund” Board. André Bandi appointed as a new member of the Board.
Fruit of meticulous interdisciplinary work, Syriaca.org is the cornerstone upon which Peter Brown’s Balzan research project entitled Figures in Landscape has been built. Peter Brown, Balzan Prize for Ancient History, and David Michelson, project leader, illustrate this innovative form of historical-cultural corpus in an interview by Susannah Gold.
The event followed up on the recent publication of the “Dictionnaire critique de l’utopie au temps des Lumières”, in the frame of Bronislaw Baczko’s Balzan Research Project.
Rosalyn Higgins and the young collaborators working under her Balzan research project are on the final stretch of the enormous work of editing a “new Oppenheim”. In an interview by Susannah Gold, Dame Rosalyn explained the phases of conceiving and implementing work on the new volume of one of the most fundamental treatises on law of […]
