Prince of Asturias Awards
The Prince of Asturias Awards (in Spanish: Premios Príncipe de Asturias) is a series of annual prizes given in Spain by the Fundación Príncipe de Asturias to individuals from around the world who make notable achievements in the sciences, humanities, or public affairs. The awards are presented in Oviedo, the capital of the Principality of Asturias in a ceremony conducted by Felipe, Prince of Asturias.
The Prince of Asturias Awards was established in 1981. A sculpture expressly created by Catalan sculptor Joan Miró is presented to the yearly recipients.
The Awards winners are:
- Communications and Humanities:
- Technical and Scientific Research:
- 1981: Emilio Rosenblueth and Pablo Rudomín and Manuel Cardona and Marcos Moshinsky
- 1989: Salvador Moncada and Manuel Patarroyo
- 1995: Manuel Losada Villasante and National Biodiversity Institute of Costa Rica
- 1996: Emilio Méndez Pérez and Ricardo Miledi and Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo
- 2001: Craig Venter, John Sulston, Hamilton Smith, Francis Collins and Robert E. Kahn, Vinton Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee and Jane Goodall
- 2004: Judah Folkman, Tony Hunter, Joan Massagué Solé, Bert Vogelstein and International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources and Stephen Hawking
- 1990: Sephardic Communities
- 1991: Medicus Mundi and Gesto por la Paz in the Basque Country
- 1994: Save the Children, National Movement of Street Children and Hussein I, king of Jordan
- 1996: Adolfo Suárez
- 1997: Yehudi Menuhin and Mstislav Rostropovich
- 1998: Nicolás Castellanos, Vicente Ferrer, Joaquín Sanz Gadea and Muhammad Yunus
- 1999: Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language
- 2001: World Network of Biosphere Reserves
- 2002: Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said
- 2003: J. K. Rowling
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