Laureates

Laureates of the Dagmar and Václav Havel Foundation VIZE 97 Prize


John C. Lennox

2023

Irish mathematician awarded for an unmissable contribution to the public debate about the role of religion in contemporary civilization.


Alena Hadravová and Petr Hadrava

2022

Czech scientists working together in the field of history of astronomy

 

2021

Thousands of nameless people who fought on the front line with the coronavirus pandemic

 

Ivan Chvatík

2020

Czech philosopher, translator and founder of the Jan Patočka Archive

 

Martin Bútora

2019

Slovak sociologist, writer and diplomat

 

Josef Jařab

2018

Czech university professor of English and American literature

 

Nathaniel David Mermin

2017
American theoretical physicist and university professor

(laudatio, speech)

 

Jan Sokol

2016
Czech philosopher, translator and university professor

 

Timothy Snyder

2015
American historian and author

100foto a pajer

 

Andrew Lass

2014
American social and cultural anthropologist, surrealist,
photographer and author of Czech poems
Lass

 

Jiří Fiala – „in memoriam“

2013
Significant Czech mathematician, analytic philosopher and translator

2013

 

Miloslav Petrusek – „in memoriam“

2012
Distinguished Czech sociologist and university professor

2012

 

Iva Mojžišová

2011
Significant Slovak art theoretic

2011

 

Konrad Paul Liessmann

2010
Outstanding Austrian essayist, literary critic and philosopher

2010

 

Václav Cílek

2009
Distinguished Czech geologist, climatologist, writer, philosopher and populariser of science

2009

 

Julia Kristeva

2008
Significant writer, linguist and psychoanalyst
(laudatiospeech)

2008

 

Stanislav Grof

2007
Significant American psychologist and psychiatrist of Czech origin
(laudatiospeech)

2007

 

Zygmunt Bauman

2006
World-renowned sociologist
(laudatiospeech)

2006

 

Philip G. Zimbardo

2005
World-renowned psychologist
(laudatiospeech)

2005

 

Petr Vopěnka

2004
World-renowned mathematician and former Minister of Education
(biography)

2004

 

Robert B. Reich

2003
Renowned American economist and former member of President Bill Clinton’s administration
(speech)

2003

 

Joseph Weizenbaum

2002
German-born American computer scientist and thinker

2002

 

Zdeněk Neubauer

2001
Czech scientist and philosopher

2001

 

Umberto Eco

2000
World-renowned semioticist and writer

2000

 

Karl H. Pribram

1999
American neurosurgeon and thinker

1999