National Prize for Natural Sciences (Chile)

National Prize for Natural Sciences
Part of the National Prize of Chile
Sponsored by	CONICYT
Country	Chile
First awarded	1992
Currently held by	Fabián Jaksic [es]

The National Prize for Natural Sciences (Spanish: Premio Nacional de Ciencias Naturales) was created in 1992 as one of the replacements for the National Prize for Sciences under Law 19169.[1] The other two prizes in this same area are for Exact Sciences and Applied Sciences and Technologies.

It is part of the National Prize of Chile.

Winners

• 1992, Jorge Allende (biochemistry)[2]
• 1994, Humberto Maturana (neurobiology)[2]
• 1996, Nibaldo Bahamonde [es] (hydrobiology)[2]
• 1998, Juan Antonio Garbarino Bacigalupo (chemistry)[2]
• 2000, Mario Luxoro [es] (biophysics)[2]
• 2002, Ramón Latorre (biophysics)[3]
• 2004, Pedro Labarca Prado (biophysics)[2]
• 2006, Cecilia Hidalgo Tapia (biochemistry)[4]
• 2008, Nibaldo Inestrosa Cantin [es] (neurobiology)[2]
• 2010, Mary Kalin Arroyo (botany)[5]
• 2012, Bernabé Santelices [es] (marine biology)[2]
• 2014, Ligia Gargallo (chemistry)[6]
• 2016, Francisco Rothhammer Engel (genetics)[7]
• 2018, Fabián Jaksic [es] (ecology)[8]

See also

• List of biology awards
• List of earth sciences awards
• List of chemistry awards
• List of medicine awards
• List of neuroscience awards
• List of psychology awards
• CONICYT

References

1. "Ley 19169: Establece normas sobre otorgamiento de Premios Nacionales" [Law 19169: Establishes Rules on Granting National Prizes] (in Spanish). Ministry of Education. 26 September 1992. Retrieved 8 December 2017 – via Library of the National Congress of Chile.
2. "Bernabé Santelices recibe el Premio Nacional de Ciencias Naturales" [Bernabé Santelices Receives the National Prize for Natural Sciences]. El Mercurio (in Spanish). Santiago. 31 August 2012. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
3. "Ramón Latorre de la Cruz" (in Spanish). University of Chile. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
4. Angel, Eliette; Esteffan, Gabriel (26 August 2006). "Cecilia Hidalgo es la primera mujer en ganar el Premio Nacional de Ciencias Naturales" [Cecilia Hidalgo is the First Woman to Win the National Prize for Natural Sciences]. El Mercurio (in Spanish). Santiago. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
5. "Mary Kalin Arroyo, premio nacional de Ciencias: 'Los eucaliptus son árboles gasolina'" [Mary Kalin Arroyo, National Prize for Sciences: 'The Eucalyptus are Gasoline Trees']. El Desconcierto (in Spanish). 1 February 2017. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
6. "Doctora Ligia Gargallo recibe Premio Nacional de Ciencias Naturales" [Doctor Ligia Gargallo Receives National Prize for Natural Sciences] (in Spanish). Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. 27 August 2014. Archived from the original on October 10, 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
7. Scarpa, Marié (29 August 2016). "Francisco Rothhammer recibe Premio Nacional de Ciencias Naturales 2016" [Francisco Rothhammer Receives 2016 National Prize for Natural Sciences]. La Tercera (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 December 2017.
8. Silva, Daniela (27 August 2018). "Fabián Jaksic recibe el Premio Nacional de Ciencias Naturales 2018". La Tercera (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 January 2019.