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Presentation of the Balzan Prizes
15 November 2013
The Balzan Prizes reward both the natural sciences and the humanities. Alain Berset sees in them a bridge between the “two cultures” of C. P. Snow, who asked literary intellectuals to explain the notion of mass: no one could.
He notes that since 2001 each prizewinner has given half of the prize to young researchers, and speaks of a “crisis of progress”: social progress has become synonymous with preserving what has been achieved. He concludes in Italian: the prizewinners change the world through their thinking.
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- Prix Balzan (French-language page)
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