Balzan Prize

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Balzan Prize

HONOR

Cash prize awarded by the International Balzan Foundation.

Official Website:
http://www.balzan.com/

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Jorge Luis Borges Author 24-Aug-1899 14-Jun-1986 The Garden of Forking Paths

E. H. Gombrich Historian 30-Mar-1909 3-Nov-2001 Art and Illusion

Alan J. Heeger Physicist 22-Jan-1936 Metallic polymers

Fred Hoyle Astronomer 24-Jun-1915 20-Aug-2001 Steady-state universe

Pope John XXIII Religion 25-Nov-1881 3-Jun-1963 Roman Catholic Pontiff, 1958-63

György Ligeti Composer 28-May-1923 12-Jun-2006 Lontano, Lux Aeterna

Drummond Matthews Geologist 5-Feb-1931 20-Jul-1997 Plate tectonics

John Maynard Smith Biologist 6-Jan-1920 19-Apr-2004 Applied game theory to evolutionary biology

Ernst Mayr Naturalist 5-Jul-1904 3-Feb-2005 Evolutionary biologist

Samuel Eliot Morison Historian 9-Jul-1887 15-May-1976 Rear Admiral and naval historian

Jan Hendrik Oort Astronomer 28-Apr-1900 5-Nov-1992 Theory of the origin of comets

Jean Piaget Psychologist 9-Aug-1896 17-Sep-1980 Elaborated the stages of childhood

Martin Rees Astronomer 23-Jun-1942 President of the Royal Society

Martin Schwarzschild Astronomer 31-May-1912 10-Apr-1997 Structure and Evolution of the Stars

Mother Teresa Religion 26-Aug-1910 5-Sep-1997 Missionaries of Charity

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