Samuel Eliot Morison : Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, emeritus, rear admiral, United States Naval Reserve, retired, still a most active historian and sailor ... It is small wonder that the Balzan Foundation, when it wished to award in history something comparable in distinction to a Nobel Prize ... chose from the entire world Samuel Eliot Morison as the first recipient

"Samuel Eliot Morison : Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, emeritus, rear admiral, United States Naval Reserve, retired, still a most active historian and sailor ... It is small wonder that the Balzan Foundation, when it wished to award in history something comparable in distinction to a Nobel Prize ... chose from the entire world Samuel Eliot Morison as the first recipient"@en