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| | Physics Today December 2000 |
 | | 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. |
 | | The fields in which the 2001 Balzan Prizes will be awarded are climatology, cognitive neurosciences, literary history and criticism (post-1500), and the history of architecture. |
 | | 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. |
| www.physicstoday.org /pt/vol-53/iss-12/p82b.html (188 words) |
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