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Balzan Prize

HONOR

Cash prize awarded by the International Balzan Foundation.

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

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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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