Overview

• The four winners are Josiah Ober for research on Athenian democracy, Carl H. June for pioneering CAR‑T cell therapy, Rosalind Krauss for shaping contemporary art history, and Christophe Salomon for advances enabling next‑generation atomic clocks.
• The foundation announced the awards in Milan on Sept. 8, with the ceremony scheduled for Nov. 14 in Bern, Switzerland.
• Ober, a Stanford classics professor and Hoover Institution fellow, was cited for identifying factors behind Athenian democracy’s success and drawing present‑day comparisons.
• June, who leads a lab at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, was recognized for CAR‑T innovations that transformed leukemia treatment, with presenters noting emerging variants and hopes for autoimmune applications where cures do not exist.
• The foundation also outlined next year’s prize fields—social science of digital technology, Jewish studies, biodegradable polymers from renewable sources, and molecular evolution—and an additional award for Humanity, Peace and Fraternity among People.