The National Prize for Exact Sciences ( es, Premio Nacional de Ciencias Exactas) 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

Natural Sciences Natural science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation. Mechanisms such as peer review and repeatab ...

and Applied Sciences and Technologies. It is part of the

National Prize of Chile The National Prize of Chile ( es, Premio Nacional de Chile) is the collective name given to a set of awards granted by the government of Chile through the Ministry of Education and, as of 2003, by the National Council of Culture and the Arts. They a ...

Jury

The

jury A jury is a sworn body of people (jurors) convened to hear evidence and render an impartiality, impartial verdict (a Question of fact, finding of fact on a question) officially submitted to them by a court, or to set a sentence (law), penalty o ...

is made up of the Minister of Education, who calls it, the Rector of the

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, the President of the , a representative of the Council of Rectors, and the last recipient of the prize.

Winners

* 1993, Servet Martínez and

Eric Goles Eric Antonio Goles Chacc (born August 21, 1951) is a Chilean mathematician and computer scientist of Croatian descent. He studied civil engineering at the University of Chile before taking two doctorates at the University of Grenoble in France. ...

(mathematics) * 1995,

Claudio Bunster Claudio Bunster Weitzman (; born April 15, 1947) is a Chilean theoretical physicist. Until 2005 his name was Claudio Teitelboim Weitzman. Biography Claudio Bunster attended at Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera, a prestigious publi ...

(physics) * 1997,

María Teresa Ruiz María Teresa Ruiz (born 24 September 1946) is a Chilean astronomer who was the first woman to receive Chile's National Prize for Exact Sciences, the first female recipient of a doctorate in astrophysics at Princeton University, and the first w ...

(astronomy) * 1999, José Maza Sancho (astronomy) * 2001, (physics) * 2003, Carlos Conca (mathematics) * 2005, (physics) * 2007, (physics) * 2009,

Ricardo Baeza Rodríguez Ricardo Baeza Rodríguez is a Chilean mathematician who works as a professor at the University of Talca.. He earned his Ph.D. in 1970 from Saarland University, under the joint supervision of Robert W. Berger and Manfred Knebusch. His research int ...

(mathematics) * 2011, (mathematics) * 2013, Manuel del Pino (mathematics) * 2015, Mario Hamuy (astronomy) * 2017, Guido Garay Brignardello (astronomy) *2019, Dora Altbir (nanoscience and nanotechnology)

References

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