HONOR

Cash prize awarded by the International Balzan Foundation.

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Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Bruce A. Beutler	Biologist	29-Dec-1957		Lipopolysaccharide receptors
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
Jules A. Hoffmann	Biologist	2-Aug-1941		Innate immunity
Fred Hoyle	Astronomer	24-Jun-1915	20-Aug-2001	Opposed the Big Bang but named it
Pope John XXIII	Religion	25-Nov-1881	3-Jun-1963	Roman Catholic Pontiff, 1958-63
Andrew E. Lange	Astronomer	23-Jul-1957	22-Jan-2010	Cosmologist, astrophysicist at Caltech
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	Biologist	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
Sewall Wright	Biologist	21-Dec-1889	3-Mar-1988	Mathematics of evolution

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