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!!Professor Wang Hui, Professor Fabrizio Nestola, Professor Nicola Segata and Professor Albio Cesare Cassio are awarded the 2026 Feltrinelli Prizes
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[Wang Hui|Member/Wang_Hui] MAE, one of the first Distinguished Professors of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at [Tsinghua University|https://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/en] and director of the [Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences|https://chcinetwork.org/members/tsinghua-institute-for-advanced-study-in-humanities-and-social-sciences], has received the International Antonio Feltrinelli Prize for Moral and Historical Sciences in the field of Social Sciences &quot;''for his contribution to the understanding of the historical roots of Chinese modernity and for his critical analysis of globalization processes''&quot;. Professor Hui was elected as member of the [Social Change and Social Thought|Acad_Main/Sections/Social_Change_and_Social_Thought] Section of Academia Europaea in 2024.
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[Fabrizio Nestola|Member/Nestola_Fabrizio] MAE, Professor in Mineralogy at the [University of Padova|https://www.unipd.it/en], Italy, received the «Antonio Feltrinelli» Prizes  for Italian citizens in Geosciences &quot;for for his research into mineralogy under non-environmental conditions and for his innovative approaches to the study of inclusions in natural diamonds&quot;. Professor Nestola was elected as member of the [Earth and Cosmic Sciences|Acad_Main/Sections/Earth_cosmic_sciences] Section of Academia Europaea in 2024.
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[Nicola Segata|Member/Segata_Nicola] MAE, Professor at the [University of Trento|https://www.unitn.it/en], Italy, received the «Antonio Feltrinelli» Prizes  for Italian citizens in Biological sciences &quot;''for his scientific achievements in the field of microbial genomics and for being regarded as one of the pioneers of strain-level metagenomics''&quot;. Professor Segata was elected as member of the [Basic and Clinical Translational Sciences|Acad_Main/Sections/Basic_and_Clinical_Translational_Sciences] Section in 2025.
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[Albio Cesare Cassio|Member/Cassio_Albio_Cesare] MAE, Emeritus Professor, [University of Rome &quot;Sapienza&quot;|https://www.uniroma1.it/it], was awarded the Linceo Prize for the Linguistics &quot;''for his philological focus on Attic comedy and Aristophanes, and for his studies on the earliest history of the Greek language and its dialects''&quot;. Professor Cassio was elected as member of the [Classics and Oriental Studies|Acad_Main/Sections/Classics_and_oriental_studies] Section of Academia Europaea in 2021.
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[{Image src='Wang_Hui_cropped.jpg' caption='Professor Wang Hui' height='200' alt='Professor Wang Hui'}]
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[{Image src='Nestola_Fabrizio_cropped.jpg' caption='Professor Fabrizio Nestola' height='200' alt='Professor Fabrizio Nestola'}]
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[{Image src='Segata_Nicola_2026_cropped.jpg' caption='Nicola Segata' height='200' alt='Nicola Segata'}]
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[{Image src='Cassio_Albio_Cesare_cropped.jpg' caption='Albio Cesare Cassio' height='200' alt='Albio Cesare Cassio'}]
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!About the Feltrinelli Prizes

Established in 1942 through a bequest by entrepreneur and artist Antonio Feltrinelli, the Feltrinelli Prize is one of Italy’s most prestigious awards in science and culture. It recognizes outstanding Italian and international figures for exceptional contributions to science and the arts and is divided into two categories: the national prize for Italian recipients and the international prize.
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The prizes are awarded across five categories: Moral and Historical Sciences; Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences; the Humanities; Arts; and Medicine. Wang Hui is the first Asian scholar to receive the prize since its establishment.
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The award ceremony was held on June 12 at the headquarters of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Italy, with Italian President Sergio Mattarella in attendance. 
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