PRINCE OF ASTURIAS AWARDS LAUREATES FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES
The award will be bestowed to the individual, institution or group of individuals or institutions whose creative work or research in the fields of History, Law, Linguistics, Education, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Ethics, Philosophy, Geography, Economics, Demography or Anthropology, including the disciplines corresponding to each of these fields, constitutes a significant contribution to the benefit of Mankind.
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2011
Howard Gardner
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
Internationally recognised for this theory of multiple intelligences, which has revealed the diverse manifestations of the human intellect, his research has been decisive in the evolution of the education system.
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2010
The archaeological team of the Warriors of Xi'an
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
The archaeological team of the Warriors of Xi'an
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2009
David Attenborough
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
David Attenborough, 2009 Prince of Asturias Award of Social Sciences
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2008
Tzvetan Todorov
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
His intellectual concern, his wisdom and erudition, surpasses all frontiers and seeks the middle ground, allowing him to study great issues of our time, such as the development of democracies.
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2007
Ralf Dahrendorf
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
Professor Dahrendorf has had an excellent career teaching at prestigious universities, especially in Germany and the United Kingdom.
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2006
Mary Robinson
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
during which time she was prominent for her defence of human rights.
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2005
Giovanni Sartori
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
Author translated to more than thirty languages, among their works we can highlight Engineering (1994), What is the democracy? (1997) and Homo Videns: the guided society (1998)
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2004
Paul Krugman
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
Paul Krugman, young as he is, is one of the most outstanding economists of our times
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2003
Jürgen Habermas
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
What a philosopher conceives need not necessarily become a visionary´s dream transformed into a novel.
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2002
Anthony Giddens
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
He was Professor at Leicester and Cambridge universities.
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2001
The Colegio de México & Juan Iglesias Santos
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
The Colegio de México was founded in 1940. Its predecessor had been the Casa de España, which was set up by Lázaro Cárdenas, the President of Mexico, to take in scientists, humanists, writers and poets.
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2000
Carlo Maria Martini
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
Jesuit Archbishop of Milan, expert in biblical studies and palaeographic analysis of the New Testament, prestigious intellectual.
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1999
Raymond Carr
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
widely acclaimed in the British and Latin American academic milieu.
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1998
Pierre Werner y Jacques Santer
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
Is the current President of the European Commission, during whose term of office the union has been formalised.
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1997
Martín de Riquer Morera
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
A humanistic mind that identifies with the entire cultural history of Spain, in all of its pluralities and vicinities. He is, all in all, a grand Catalan and Spanish intellectual.
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1996
John Elliott
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
A master Hispanist, recognised internationally for his research into the history of Spain.
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1995
Joaquim Veríssimo Serrão and Miquel Batllori i Munné
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
Joaquim Verrísimo Serrão is one of Portugal´s most important historians. Miguel Batllori i Munné stands for a career in research of recognised national and international prestig.
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1994
Aurelio Menéndez
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
The extraordinary academic personality of Professor Menéndez, his indisputable position as the master of Economic and Mercantile Law.
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1993
Silvio Zavala
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
Of his wide range of works, the following books are outstanding: "La defensa de los derechos del hombre en América Latina" and "El mundo americano en la epoca colonial".
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1992
Juan Velarde Fuertes
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
With a real desire to find solutions to our contemporary economic problems.
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1991
Miguel Artola Gallego
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
The work and career of Miguel Artola is the reward for a life dedicated to historiography.
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1990
Rodrigo Uría González
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
Due to his perseverant and exemplary university teaching work in training various generations of jurists and economists.
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1989
Enrique Fuentes Quintana
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
The tutor of various generations of economists in his outstanding university work.
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1988
Luis Díez del Corral y Luis Sánchez Agesta
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
For his exceptional contribution to the history of ideas and political.
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1987
Juan José Linz
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
Professor Linz´s work covers, among other fields, the study of the working and stability of democracies.
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1986
José Luis Pinillos
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
José Luis Pinillos Díaz, whose contribution to the promotion and advancement of empirical psychology in Spain has been decisive.
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1985
Ramón Carande Thovar
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
For being a universal example of singular humanistic spirit and complete dedication to rigorous research.
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1984
Eduardo García de Enterría
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
As they deem him to be a lecturer and jurist of recognised prestige in Spain and abroad.
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1983
Julio Caro Baroja
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
In recognition of a constant and rigorous work of research dedicate to the Social and Cultural Anthropology of the peoples of Spain and of certain social groups.
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1982
Antonio Domíguez Ortiz
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
For the universal transcendence of his work, as well as for its creative and humanistic dimension.
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1981
Román Perpiñá Grau
Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences
For his contributions to understanding the operation of the Spanish economy, to structural analysis, to the spatial dimension of the economic and social structure of Spain and Spanish America, and for his wide university