(ANSA) – MILAN, SEPTEMBER 9 – From law to the history of science, from the biology of aging to innovative materials: the prizes of the international Balzan foundation focus on sustainable progress this year. In Milan, the president of the international Balzan foundation ‘Prize’, former minister Maria Cristina Messa, and the president of the general Balzan prize committee, former minister Maria Cartabia, announced the winners of the four 2024 prizes, who are John Braithwaite, of the Australian National University, Lorraine Daston of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin-Dahlem, Michael N. Hall of the Biozentrum of the University of Basel and Omar Yaghi of the University of California Berkeley.
The four winners will personally receive the prize on November 21 in Rome, during the award ceremony attended by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella. The value of each Balzan Prize 2024 is approximately 800,000 euros.
The four subjects change every year and are chosen in the two categories of literature, moral sciences and arts and physical, mathematical, natural sciences and medicine. Cartabia announced the subjects of next year’s award: contemporary art history, ancient sciences, atoms and ultra-precise measurement of time and gene therapy or therapy with genetically modified cells.
The research of the winners announced today, the Foundation emphasizes, will contribute “to the understanding of the world and human society”, in a process “of continuous acquisition of knowledge, in the belief that science must always offer sustainable solutions to humanity’s problems”. (ANSA).
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