The National Prize for Natural Sciences ( es, Premio Nacional de Ciencias Naturales) was created in 1992 as one of the replacements for the National Prize for Sciences under Law 19169. The other two prizes in this same area are for

Exact Sciences The exact sciences, sometimes called the exact mathematical sciences, are those sciences "which admit of absolute precision in their results"; especially the mathematical sciences. Examples of the exact sciences are mathematics, optics, astron ...

and Applied Sciences and Technologies. It is part of the National Prize of Chile.

Winners

* 1992,

Jorge Allende Jorge Eduardo Allende Rivera, (born 11 November 1934) is a Chilean biochemist and biophysicist known for his contributions to the understanding of proteic biosynthesis and how transfer RNA is generated, and the regulation of maturation of ...

(biochemistry) * 1994,

Humberto Maturana Humberto Maturana Romesín (September 14, 1928 – May 6, 2021) was a Chilean biologist and philosopher. Many consider him a member of a group of second-order cybernetics theoreticians such as Heinz von Foerster, Gordon Pask, Herbert Brün a ...

(neurobiology) * 1996, (hydrobiology) * 1998, Juan Antonio Garbarino Bacigalupo (chemistry) * 2000, (biophysics) * 2002, Ramón Latorre (biophysics) * 2004, Pedro Labarca Prado (biophysics) * 2006, Cecilia Hidalgo Tapia (biochemistry) * 2008, (neurobiology) * 2010,

Mary Kalin Arroyo Dr. Mary Therese Kalin-Arroyo was born in 1944 in New Zealand. She is currently a professor of biology at the University of Chile. Kalin-Arroyo is notable for revising the indigenous genus ''Ourisia'' and discovering several new species in New ...

(botany) * 2012, (marine biology) * 2014,

Ligia Gargallo Ligia Gargallo is a Chilean chemist and university professor of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Career She works at the University of Tarapacá (Arica) and at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, in Santiago. She received ...

(chemistry) * 2016, Francisco Rothhammer Engel (genetics) * 2018, (ecology)

References

{{Reflist, 30em 1992 establishments in Chile Awards established in 1992 Chilean science and technology awards Earth sciences awards Chemistry awards Biology awards Medicine awards Neuroscience awards Cognitive science awards 1992 in Chilean law

Winners

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