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	Balzan Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The International Balzan Prize Foundation awards four annual monetary prizes to people or organisations who have made outstanding achievements in the fields of humanities, natural sciences, culture, as well as for endeavours for peace and the brotherhood of man.
		Since 2001 the prize money has increased to 1 million Swiss Francs per prize, on condition that half the money is used for projects involving young researchers.
		The Prize ranks close to the Nobel Prize and is one of the highest awards for science, culture and humanitarian achievement, but is less well known, despite Balzan's prize money for 2004 of 3 million US dollars exceeding Nobel's of 1.3 million (at 2004 exchange rates).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Balzan_Prize (415 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Balzan
		Balzan is the name of a small village found towards the centre of the Maltese Islands in the Mediterranean sea.
		The Balzan Prizes are given by the Italian-Swiss Balzan Foundation, instituted in 1956, thanks to the generosity of Angela Lina Balzan, who had inherited a large estate from her father, Eugenio.
		The Balzan Prizes are amongst the most important humanistic and scientific awards in the world, both for the scientific rigour followed in assigning them, as well as for their financial value.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Balzan (1385 words)

	Physics Today December 2000
		The Swiss-Italian International E. Balzan Prize Foundation in September presented the Balzan Prizes 2000, one of which was awarded to astrophysicist Michel Mayor and is worth CHF 500,000 (approximately $285 000).
		Mayor, director of the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland, received the Balzan Prize in the field of instrumentation and techniques in astronomy and astrophysics within the category of physics, mathematics, science, and medicine for his discovery of the "first extraterrestrial satellite orbiting around the star 51 Pegasi," reports the foundation.
		Balzan Prizes are awarded each year in different fields within the humanities, social sciences, and art category and the physics, mathematics, science, and medicine category.
	www.physicstoday.org /pt/vol-53/iss-12/p82b.html (247 words)

	Talk:Balzan Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		I have emailed the Balzan Foundation a request to use their Balzan logo on this article.
		I requested use of a logo from The Balzan Foundation, and they replied, but appear to be asking the whole article be taken down.
		After a break from the internet I have found this email from the Balzan Stiftung, requesting removal of unrelated links, but it seems they mean the [http://balzan-prize.wikiverse.org/ wikiverse.org mirror] of this article.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Balzan_Prize (1390 words)

	Comunità di Sant'Egidio - Premi
		The Prize for humanity, peace and fraternity among peoples is a special Prize awarded by Balzan Foundation to a single person or a body that stands out for high humanitarian merits.
		Eugenio Balzan was born in 1874 he was a journalist for many years and afterwards administrator and co-owner, for a small share, of the "Corriere della Sera".
		The International Balzan Foundation "Prize", with its headquarters in Milan, deals with the choice of the Awarded and the award of Prizes, and elaborates and leads the policy of the Foundation.
	www.santegidio.org /archivio/premi/20040907_balzan_EN.htm (343 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Balzan Prize
		Before her death, she left instructions for the foundation and since then it has two headquarters, the Prize aministered from Milan, the Fund from Zurich.
		Four prizes have been awarded annually since 1978 for achievements in the categories: 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar).
		The humanities are a group of academic subjects united by a commitment to studying aspects of the human condition and a qualitative approach that generally prevents a single paradigm from coming to define any discipline.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Balzan-Prize (1012 words)

	Balzan Prize to Lothar Ledderose
		Two Prizes are awarded in the humanities (literature, the moral sciences and the arts) and two in the sciences (medicine and the physical, mathematical and natural sciences).
		By rotating subjects, a special characteristic of the Balzan Prizes, it is possible to give preference to new or emerging lines of research, and to sustain important fields of study that may have been overlooked by other great forms of international recognition.
		The winners of the Balzan Prizes were chosen by the General Prize Committee, a body chaired by Ambassador Sergio Romano and composed of 20 members from the most prestigious cultural institutions in Europe.
	www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de /akademie/balzan.htm (313 words)

	University Archaeology Professor winner of coveted Balzan Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Colin A. Renfrew, Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, and until October 2004 Professor of Archaeology and Director of the McDonald Institute for Archeological Research at the University received the Balzan Prize for Prehistoric Archeology.
		The International Balzan Foundation was established in 1956 and since then its has committed to fostering achievements worldwide in the humanities, natural sciences, and culture, as well as humanitarian endeavours.
		The Balzan Prize is one of the most renowned prizes for science, and honours the tireless work of the most committed scientists.
	www.admin.cam.ac.uk /news/dp/2004111801 (300 words)

	University of Chicago scientist wins prestigious Balzan Prize
		The $709,000 award is often referred to as the "Italian Nobel." Li is one of four people worldwide to receive a Balzan Prize this year for contributions to science and humanities.
		The International Balzan Foundation is a European body dedicated to recognizing and rewarding outstanding individual achievement -- regardless of nationality, race or creed -- in science, culture and humanitarian causes through a program of prestigious annual prizes.
		The foundation was set up in 1956 by Angela Lina Balzan who, coming into a considerable inheritance on the death of her father, Eugenio Balzan, decided to use the money to honor his memory.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2003-09/uocm-uoc091603.php (750 words)

	Li wins Balzan Prize for research on evolutionary molecular genetics
		The International Balzan Foundation is a European body based in both Milan, Italy, and Zurich, Switzerland, and is dedicated to recognizing and rewarding outstanding individual achievement-regardless of nationality, race or creed-in science, culture and humanitarian causes through a program of prestigious annual prizes.
		Angela Lina Balzan who, coming into a considerable inheritance on the death of her father, Eugenio Balzan, decided to use the money to honor his memory and so established the foundation in 1956.
		Once a year, four Balzan prizes are awarded-two in scientific disciplines and two in the humanities, with the categories varying annually.
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /030925/li.shtml (728 words)

	Balzan Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The assets behind the foundation were established by the Italian Eugenio Balzan, co-owner of Corriere della Sera who had invested his assets in Switzerland and in 1933 had left Italy in protest against fascism.
		When he died in 1953 he left a substantial inheritance to his daughter Angela Lina Balzan (born 1892), who at the time was suffering an incurable disease.
		Award ceremonies alternate between Bern and Rome, and frequently winners were to later win the Nobel Prize.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Balzan_Prize.html (457 words)

	The European Archaeological Heritage Prize for 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The five eagerly awaited Balzan Prize Winners 2004 are: Nikki R.Keddie (USA) for The Islamic world from the end of the 19th to the end of the 20th century, Colin A. Renfrew (UK) for Prehistoric archaeology, Sir Michael Marmot (UK) for Epidemiology, and Pierre Deligne (Belgium) for Mathematics.
		Each Prize Winner in the four scientific fields receives one million Swiss francs, half of which must be devoted to research projects involving young researchers in the Prize Winner's field.
		• The Foundation was established in 1956 by Angela Lina Balzan in honour of her father Eugenio Balzan (*1874), who died in Switzerland in 1953 and from 1897 until 1933 worked for the "Corriere della Sera", initially as a correspondent and from 1903 as its managing director and co-owner.
	www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk /McD/bpa.html (777 words)

	Harmon Craig wins Balzan Prize
		The Balzan Prize of the International Balzan Foundation of Milan, Italy, has several times been given in astrophysics and geophysics, but this is the first award in geochemistry.
		The Balzan Prize is considered the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the fields of natural sciences, humanities, social sciences and international affairs that are not in Nobel awards categories.
		The Balzan Prize was established in 1961 by the late Italian heiress Lina Balzan in memory of her father, publisher Eugenio Balzan.
	www.socarchsci.org /bulletin/9901/9901n.htm (1059 words)

	09.22.2005 - Sir Peter Hall, UC Berkeley emeritus professor of city planning, wins 2005 Balzan Prize
		BERKELEY – Sir Peter Hall, professor emeritus of city and regional planning at the University of California, Berkeley, is one of six winners of the 2005 Balzan Prize, recognized for his contributions to the study of the social and cultural history of cities since the start of the 16th century.
		The Balzan Prize, worth $805,000, is one of the highest awards for science, culture and humanitarian achievement, ranking close to the Nobel Prize.
		Prize recipients donate half the prize money to research projects for young researchers in his or her field of study.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/2005/09/22_balzan.shtml (276 words)

	Carnegie Institution’s Hemley and Mao Awarded International Balzan Prize - Carnegie Institution News
		The prize committee recognized them “for the impressive impact of their joint work leading to fundamental breakthroughs…They have operated as a highly effective team, characterized by twenty years of research contributions at the highest level.” “Rus Hemley and Dave Mao truly deserve this award, ” commented Carnegie president Richard A. Meserve.
		The Balzan prize is awarded to scientists, artists, and institutions for outstanding achievements in humanities, social sciences, physics, mathematics, natural sciences, and medicine.
		The International Balzan Foundation was established in 1956 by Angela Lina Balzan in memory of her father, Eugenio, a co-publisher of the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.
	www.carnegieinstitution.org /news_releases/news_0509_09.html (408 words)

	Balzan Stiftung (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		prizes for science and every three to five years a prize for peace.
		Presentation of the Balzan Prizes 2006 to the Prize Winners by the President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano.
		Public announcement of the Balzan Prize Winners 2006 and the prize fields 2007 at the Institute for the Study of International Politics (ISPI) in via Clerici 7, Milan, at 5 pm.
	www.balzan.com /index_en.cfm (174 words)

	Oxonian Award Winners : University of Oxford
		The Nobel Prize is given yearly for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, economics and peace.
		The interdiscipinary Balzan Prize aims to foster, on a world-wide level, culture and science, outstanding humanitarian causes, and peace and brotherhood among peoples, regardless of nationality, race or creed.
		Four prizes are awarded annually by the International Balzan Foundation in literature, the moral sciences, and the arts; and for the physical, mathematical and natural sciences, and for medicine.
	www.ox.ac.uk /aboutoxford/awardwinners (113 words)

	ICDA News: Balzan Prize 2002
		This makes it unique among major international Prizes, which offers the same opportunities to those who are already established and to those who have the potential to become so.
		Eugenio Balzan was born in Badia Polesine, in Northern Italy, in 1874, and spent a large part of his working life in Milan, at the Corriere della Sera, the most important Italian daily newspaper.
		In 2000, this Prize was awarded to Abdul Sattar Edhi, founder of the Edhi Foundation, a humanitarian organisation in Karachi, Pakistan.
	www.icda.org /news/balzan05_16.html (1133 words)

	Balzan Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		It ranks close to the Nobel Prize, and is one of the highest awards for science, culture and humanitarian achievement, but isless well known, despite Balzan's prize money for 2004 of 3 million US dollars exceeding Nobel's of 1.3 million (at 2004 exchangerates).
		The assets behind the foundation were established by the Italian Eugenio Balzan, co-owner of Corriere della Sera who had invested hisassets in Switzerland and in 1933 hadleft Italy in protest against fascism.
		When he died in 1953 he left a substantial inheritance to his daughter Angela Lina Balzan (born 1892), who at the time was sufferingan incurable disease.
	www.therfcc.org /balzan-prize-152109.html (328 words)

	Taiwan scientist awarded prestigious Balzan prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Li, a professor in genetics with the University of Chicago, was one of this year's four winners of the Balzan Prize for contributions to science and humanities.
		Three other winners of the Balzan Prizes for 2003 were British historian Eric Hobsbawm, French psychologist Serge Moscovici and German astronomer Reinhard Genzel.
		Li is the third scientist to receive a Balzan Prize since the foundation's inception in 1961.
	www.taiwanheadlines.gov.tw /20030912/20030912s3.html (303 words)

	BALZAN PRIZE AWARDED TO ERNST MAYR
		Although the Balzan Prize does not convey to the public the image of accomplishment and recognition that the Nobel Prizes do, it is no less prestigious.
		The prize was established in 1961 in honor of Eugenio Balzan, former head of Italy's leading newspaper, Corriere della Sera.
		The prize rewards areas of scholar- ship that are not included in the narrower domain of the Nobel Prizes and, thus, represents the highest form of recognition in many areas of science not con- sidered by the Nobel Prizes.
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Auk/v101n02/p0425-p0425.html (528 words)

	Construction and Maintenance :: Peter Hall Get Balzan Prize 2005 For History Of Cities
		Peter Hall of University College, London, is one of six winners of the 2005 Balzan Prize, recognized for his contributions to the study of the social and cultural history of cities since the start of the 16th century.
		The Balzan Prizes 2005 were presented on Friday, November 11, 2005 at the Swiss Houses of Parliament in Berne by the Head of the Federal Department of Home Affairs.
		The Balzan Foundation has been in operation since 1956 on an international level through its two headquarters: one in Italy that deals with the awarding of the Prizes, and one in Switzerland that administers the estate left by Eugenio Balzan.
	home.nestor.minsk.by /build/news/2005/11/1202.html (302 words)

	HPCAT Staff
		International Balzan Foundation has awarded Russell J. Hemley and Dave Mao of the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington the Balzan Prize for 2005 in Mineral Physics, "For the impressive impact of their joint work leading to fundamental breakthroughs, theoretical and experimental, in the field of minerals submitted to extreme physical conditions.
		The fields in this prize are rotated from year to year as determined by the prize committee.
		The prizes in science this year were in population biology and mineral physics.
	www.hpcat.aps.anl.gov /hl14.htm (226 words)

	idw - Balzan Prize Winners 2005
		The International Balzan Foundation was established in 1956 by Angela Lina Balzan in memory of her father, Eugenio Balzan, who for many years was co-publisher of the Italian newspaper "Corriere della Sera".
		The special prize of two million Swiss francs for humanitarian and peacemaking activities is awarded every three to five years, last time in 2004.
		Prize winners are required to devote half of the prize money to projects involving young researchers.
	idw-online.de /pages/de/news126716 (374 words)

	Keddie Awarded Balzan Prize, UCLA International Institute
		Mother Teresa was awarded a Balzan prize in 1978, as was French sociologist and historian Dominique Schnapper in 2002.
		The Balzan Foundation was established in Switzerland in 1956 by Angela Lina Balzan, the daughter of Eugenio Balzan who was the managing director and a co-owner of the Milan-based Corriere della Sera until 1933 when he left Italy in opposition to the fascist regime.
		Nominations for the Balzan prize are received from the world's leading learned societies, and candidates are selected by a committee composed of eminent European scholars and scientists.
	www.isop.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=15053 (415 words)

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