The National Prize for Applied and Technological Sciences (Spanish: Premio Nacional de Ciencias Aplicadas y Tecnológicas) 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 and Natural Sciences. It is part of the National Prize of Chile.
Jury The jury is made up of the Minister of Education, who calls it, two academics assigned by the Council of Rectors, the President of the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT), and the last recipient of the prize.
Prize The prize consists of:
A diploma A cash prize amounting to 6,562,457 pesos (US$8,647) which is adjusted every year, according to the previous year's consumer price index A pension of 20 monthly tax units (approximately US$1,600) in January of the corresponding year, which remains constant for the rest of the year
Winners 1992, Raúl Sáez 1994: René Cortázar Sagarminaga 1996: Julio Meneghello 1998: Fernando Mönckeberg Barros 2000: Andrés Weintraub Pohorille 2002: Pablo Valenzuela 2004: Juan Asenjo 2006: Edgar Kausel 2008: José Miguel Aguilera 2010: Juan Carlos Castilla 2012: Ricardo Uauy 2014: José Rodríguez Pérez 2016: Horacio Croxatto 2018: Romilio Espejo Torres
See also CONICYT List of agriculture awards List of engineering awards
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