Balzan Prizes acknowledge achievements in examine of human evolution, black holes with $840,000 awards

MILAN — An American literary historian, a French paleoanthropologist, a Danish evolutionary geneticist and a German-Dutch astrophysicist have been named the winners of this 12 months’s Balzan Prize. Their work within the humanities and pure sciences advances the examine of comparative literature, human evolution and black holes. David Damrosch, chair of Harvard College’s comparative literature … Read more