The Annual Balzan Prizes 2021

19 февраля 2021

The Balzan Prizes are chosen by the General Prize Committee in two general subject areas: Literature, Moral Sciences and the Arts; and the Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences and Medicine.

The four Balzan Prizes, two per category, are awarded to scholars, artists and scientists who have distinguished themselves in their fields on an international level.

The General Prize Committee announced that the 2021 Balzan Prizes will be awarded in the following fields:

■ Holocaust and Genocide Studies
■Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
■ Microbiome in Health and Disease
■ Gravitation: physical and astrophysical aspects

The General Prize Committee of the “Prize” Foundation invites the most prestigious international cultural and scientific institutions (universities, research institutes and academies) and figures recognized by the General Prize Committee as highly distinguished in the chosen fields for that year to submit names of candidates for the four annual Balzan Prizes.

Nominations must be submitted by 15 March of the relevant year and supported by justification for the candidate’s nomination, including a list of his/her most important publications and a complete biography. Self-nominations are not accepted.

Подробная информация на сайте Премии https://www.balzan.org/en/balzan-prize.