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Balzan Prizes honor work in humanities, science

FILE - U.S. President Barack Obama awards the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to Dr. Robert Langer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Feb. 1, 2013, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Three Americans were among winners of the 2022 Balzan Prize, announced Monday, Sept. 12, 2022, for their work in the fields of moral philosophy, musicology and biotechnology. Langer, of MIT won the biotechnology prize for what the Milan-based Balzan Foundation called pioneering research and advances in mRNA vaccines and tissue engineering. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) FILE - Martha Nussbaum is introduced as an honorary degree recipient during Harvard's 371st Commencement, May 26, 2022, in Cambridge, Mass. Three Americans were among winners of this year’s Balzan Prize, announced Monday, Sept. 12, 2022, for their work in the fields of moral philosophy, musicology and biotechnology. Nussbaum, a philosopher and scholar at the University of Chicago, won for “her transformative reconception of the goals of social justice, both globally and locally," the Balzan Foundation said in its citation. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm, File)
Balzan Prizes honor work in humanities, science