The VIZE 97 Prize

The VIZE 97 Prize (also The Vision 97 Award;^[1] 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

Year	Laureate		Nationality and profession
1999		Karl H. Pribram	American neurosurgeon, psychologist and psychiatrist[2]
2000		Umberto Eco	Italian semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist[3]
2001		Zdeněk Neubauer	Czech philosopher and biologist[4]
2002		Joseph Weizenbaum	American computer scientist and thinker of German origin[5]
2003		Robert B. Reich	American economist[6]
2004		Petr Vopěnka	Czech mathematician and philosopher[7]
2005		Philip Zimbardo	American psychologist[8]
2006		Zygmunt Bauman	Polish sociologist[9]
2007		Stanislav Grof	American psychologist and psychiatrist of Czech origin[10]
2008		Julia Kristeva	Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst[11]
2009		Václav Cílek	Czech geologist and writer[12]
2010	—	Konrad Paul Liessmann	Austrian philosopher and literary theorist[13]
2011	—	Iva Mojžišová	Slovak art theorist[14]
2012		Miloslav Petrusek	Czech sociologist[15] (in memoriam)
2013	—	Jiří Fiala	Czech mathematician and analytic philosopher[16] (in memoriam)
2014	—	Andrew Lass	American anthropologist
2015		Timothy Snyder	American historian
2016		Jan Sokol	Czech philosopher
2017		N. David Mermin	American physicist[17]
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[18]