François Recanati, holder of the Philosophy of Language and Mind Chair, has been awarded the Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize by the Humboldt Foundation for his life's work. The Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize was created in 1981 by the French and German governments to reward scientists for their work and encourage cooperation between researchers in the two countries. Prior to François Recanati, the prize was awarded to eight professors at the Collège de France :Jean-Marie Lehn (1982), Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1983), François Gros (1988), Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (1991), Serge Haroche (1991), Pierre Corvol (1993), Clément Sanchez (2008), and Carlo Ossola (2021).
