Oviedo, Jun 2 (EFE).- Forty candidates from sixteen nationalities are competing for the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research, which will be awarded next Wednesday in Oviedo.
This award is intended to distinguish the “cultivation and improvement of research, discovery and/or invention in mathematics, astronomy and astrophysics, physics, chemistry, life sciences, medical sciences, sciences Earth and space and technological sciences, as well as the disciplines corresponding to each of these fields and the techniques related to them”.
Last year, the prize went to scientists who are experts in artificial intelligence Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio and Demis Hassabis, for their contributions to the development of neural networks, tools based on complex mathematical models that aim to reproduce the functioning of the human brain in a computer and that are applied in robotics, vehicle security systems, voice assistants or language translation.
Past winners include biochemists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna; chemists Avelino Corma, Mark E. Davis, and Galen D. Stucky; the physicists Peter Higgs and François Englert, the neurologists Joseph Altman, Arturo Álvarez-Buylla and Giacomo Rizzolatti, or the mathematicians Yves Meyer, Emmanuel Candès, Ingrid Daubechies and Terence Tao.
The Scientific and Technical Research award will be the seventh of the eight awards that the Princess of Asturias Foundation convenes annually to fail, so that in this XLIII edition only the one for Concord will remain pending, on June 14.
Yesterday, Thursday, the Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation was awarded, which went to the Medicines for Neglected Diseases Initiative, an organization that develops new treatments for patients from poor and vulnerable communities.
Previously, in recent weeks, the Award of Arts has been awarded to the American actress Meryl Streep; the one for Communication and Humanities to the Italian philosopher Nuccio Ordine; that of Social Sciences to the French historian Hélène Carrère d’Encausse; the one for Sports to the Kenyan athlete Eliud Kipchoge, and the one for Literature to the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami.
