Laureates
Laureates of the Dagmar and Václav Havel Foundation VIZE 97 Prize
Miroslav Petříček
2024
A Czech philosopher and art theory scholar awarded for opening pathways to contemporary philosophical thought, thematizing its boundaries, and its relationships to art and science.
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
Jan Sokol
2016
Czech philosopher, translator and university professor
Timothy Snyder
2015
American historian and author
Andrew Lass
2014
American social and cultural anthropologist, surrealist,
photographer and author of Czech poems
Jiří Fiala – „in memoriam“
2013
Significant Czech mathematician, analytic philosopher and translator
Miloslav Petrusek – „in memoriam“
2012
Distinguished Czech sociologist and university professor
Iva Mojžišová
2011
Significant Slovak art theoretic
Konrad Paul Liessmann
2010
Outstanding Austrian essayist, literary critic and philosopher
Václav Cílek
2009
Distinguished Czech geologist, climatologist, writer, philosopher and populariser of science
Julia Kristeva
2008
Significant writer, linguist and psychoanalyst
(laudatio, speech)
Stanislav Grof
2007
Significant American psychologist and psychiatrist of Czech origin
(laudatio, speech)
Zygmunt Bauman
2006
World-renowned sociologist
(laudatio, speech)
Philip G. Zimbardo
2005
World-renowned psychologist
(laudatio, speech)
Petr Vopěnka
2004
World-renowned mathematician and former Minister of Education
(biography)
Robert B. Reich
2003
Renowned American economist and former member of President Bill Clinton’s administration
(speech)
Joseph Weizenbaum
2002
German-born American computer scientist and thinker
Zdeněk Neubauer
2001
Czech scientist and philosopher
Umberto Eco
2000
World-renowned semioticist and writer
Karl H. Pribram
1999
American neurosurgeon and thinker
