Balzan Prizes 2019 awarded in Bern
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
Today, During the Awards Ceremony at the Federal Palace in Berne, this year’s Balzan Prizes were presented to:
- Jacques Aumont (France) for Film Studies,
- Michael Cook (UK) for Islamic Studies,
- Luigi Ambrosio (Italy) for Theory of Partial Differential Equations,
- the research group composed by Erika von Mutius, Klaus F. Rabe, Werner Seeger and Tobias Welte of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL) (Germany), for Pathophysiology of respiration: from basic sciences to the bedside.
the President of the National Council of the Swiss Confederation Marina Carobbio presented the parchments to the 2019 Prizewinners; the Presidents of the Balzan Foundation “Prize” and “Fund”, Enrico Decleva and Gisèle Girgis-Musy, delivered the official speeches.
The Ceremony was preceded, on Thursday 14 November, by the Balzan Prizewinners Interdisciplinary Forum, a public event dedicated to the Balzan Prize subject areas for the current year, with the Prizewinners playing the prominent role.
