Four academics have been named as winners of the international Balzan Prizes for 2010. Each prize carries an award of 750,000 Swiss francs, or about $737,000, half of which must be used for research. The prizes are given in different fields of the humanities and sciences each year. This year’s categories and the winner in each are as follows: European history from 1400 to 1700, Carlo Ginzburg of Italy’s Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa; the history of theater, Manfred Brauneck of the University of Hamburg; mathematics, Jacob Palis of the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, in Brazil; and stem cells, Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University and the University of California at San Francisco.
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