National Prize for Natural Sciences (Chile)

National Prize for Natural Sciences
Part of the National Prize of Chile
Sponsored byCONICYT
CountryChile
First awarded1992
Currently held byFabián 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.

  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.