The VIZE 97 Prize is an international prize awarded to significant thinkers by the Dagmar and Václav Havel

Václav Havel

Václav Havel is a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. He was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech Republic . He has written over twenty plays and numerous non-fiction works, translated internationally...

 Foundation VIZE 97 (Nadace Dagmar a Václava Havlových VIZE 97). From 1999, it is 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

Prague

Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...

, Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

, and the laureates receive the "crosier

Crosier

A crosier is the stylized staff of office carried by high-ranking Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and some Lutheran and Pentecostal prelates...

 of St. Adalbert of Prague."

Laureates

Year	Laureate		Nationality and profession
1999		Karl H. Pribram Karl H. Pribram Karl H. Pribram is a professor at Georgetown University, in the United States, and an emeritus professor of psychology and psychiatry at Stanford University and Radford University...	American neurosurgeon, psychologist and psychiatrist
2000		Umberto Eco Umberto Eco Umberto Eco Knight Grand Cross is an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose , an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory...	Italian semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist
2001		Zdeněk Neubauer Zdenek Neubauer Zdeněk Neubauer is Czech philosopher and biologist, remarkable especially for original interpretations in science history and epistemology....	Czech philosopher and biologist
2002		Joseph Weizenbaum Joseph Weizenbaum Joseph Weizenbaum was a German-American author and professor emeritus of computer science at MIT.-Life and career:...	American computer scientist and thinker of German origin
2003		Robert B. Reich	American economist
2004		Petr Vopěnka Petr Vopenka Petr Vopěnka is a Czech mathematician. In the early seventies, he established the Alternative Set Theory , which he subsequently developed in a series of articles and monographs...	Czech mathematician and philosopher
2005		Philip Zimbardo Philip Zimbardo Philip George Zimbardo is an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is president of the Heroic Imagination Project...	American psychologist
2006		Zygmunt Bauman Zygmunt Bauman Zygmunt Bauman is a Polish sociologist who, since 1971, has resided in England after being driven out of Poland by an anti-Semitic campaign, engineered by the Communist government which he had previously supported...	Polish sociologist
2007		Stanislav Grof Stanislav Grof Stanislav Grof is a psychiatrist, one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology and a pioneering researcher into the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness for purposes of analyzing, healing, and obtaining growth and insight into the human psyche...	American psychologist and psychiatrist of Czech origin
2008		Julia Kristeva Julia Kristeva Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, sociologist, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She is now a Professor at the University Paris Diderot...	Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst
2009		Václav Cílek Václav Cílek Václav Cílek is Czech geologist, climatologist, writer, philosopher, science popularizer and translator of Tao and Zen texts.- Biography :...	Czech geologist and writer
2010		Konrad Paul Liessmann	Austrian philosopher and literary theorist

External links

• The VIZE 97 Prize - official website