The VIZE 97 Prize (also The Vision 97 Award; in Czech: Cena Nadace Dagmar a Václava Havlových VIZE 97) is an international prize awarded to significant thinkers by the Dagmar and Václav Havel Foundation VIZE 97 (Nadace Dagmar a Václava Havlových VIZE 97). Starting in 1999, it has been awarded annually to people who through their work "cross the traditional framework of scientific knowledge, contribute to the understanding of science as an integral part of general culture, and in an unconventional way deal with the fundamental questions of knowledge, being and human existence." The prize is awarded in Prague, Czech Republic, and the laureates receive the "crosier of St. Adalbert of Prague."
Laureates YearLaureate Nationality and profession 1999 Karl H. Pribram American neurosurgeon, psychologist and psychiatrist 2000 Umberto Eco Italian semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist 2001 Zdeněk Neubauer Czech philosopher and biologist 2002 Joseph Weizenbaum American computer scientist and thinker of German origin 2003 Robert B. Reich American economist 2004 Petr Vopěnka Czech mathematician and philosopher 2005 Philip Zimbardo American psychologist 2006 Zygmunt Bauman Polish sociologist 2007 Stanislav Grof American psychologist and psychiatrist of Czech origin 2008 Julia Kristeva Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst 2009 Václav Cílek Czech geologist and writer 2010 Konrad Paul Liessmann Austrian philosopher and literary theorist 2011 Iva Mojžišová Slovak art theorist"The VIZE 97 Foundation Prize for Iva Mojzisova" 2012 Miloslav Petrusek Czech sociologist"Cenu Vize 97 letos dostane zesnulý sociolog Miloslav Petrusek" (in memoriam) 2013 Jiří Fiala Czech mathematician and analytic philosopher"The Dagmar and Václav Havel Foundation VIZE 97 will award its Prize to Doc. RNDr. Jiří Fiala in memoriam this year" (in memoriam) 2014 Andrew Lass American anthropologist 2015 Timothy Snyder American historian 2016 Jan Sokol Czech philosopher 2017 N. David Mermin American physicist 2018 Josef Jařab Czech professor of American Literature, literary critic, translator, former Czech senator, former president of Palacký University and Central European University 2019 Martin Bútora Slovak sociologist, writer and diplomat 2020 Ivan Chvatík Czech philosopher 2021 Coronavirus pandemic helpers Thousands of unknown people on the front lines against the disease 2022 Alena and Petr Hadrav Czech scientific writers and translators in the field of astronomy 2023 John Lennox Irish mathematician, writer and debater on the role of religion in contemporary civilization 2024 Miroslav Petříček Czech philosopher and theoretician of fine arts 2025 Eva Jiřičná Czech architect and designer
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Nadace Dagmar a Václava Havlových VIZE at Google Cultural Institute