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Prince of Asturias Laureate for Technical and Scientific Research Craig Venter has diedFurther informationHe was granted the Award in 2001, along with Francis Collins, Hamilton Smith, John Sulston and Jean Weissenbach, for “discovering the human genome sequence”
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Meeting of the jury for the 2026 Princess of Asturias Award for the ArtsFurther information55 nominations encompassing 30 different nationalities are in the running for this Award, the first of eight international awards that are bestowed each year by the Princess of Asturias Foundation, now in their 46th year
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The meetings of the juries responsible for granting the 2026 Princess of Asturias Awards will commence on 28th AprilFurther information363 nominations had been submitted as of 5th March
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363 candidatures from 67 nationalities have been nominated for the 2026 Princess of Asturias AwardsFurther informationThe deadline for submitting nominations closed yesterday, Thursday, 5th March
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The call for nominations for the 2026 Princess of Asturias Awards is now openFurther information
The Foundation has started to send out the Regulations governing the Awards
Nominations can now be submitted via the Foundation’s website
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Amable Liñán, Prince of Asturias Laureate for Technical and Scientific Research, has diedFurther informationHe was conferred the Award in 1993 for “his fundamental contributions in fluid thermochemistry, which have been decisive in understanding the combustion processes in various regimes”
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Update - RTVE is to provide the official host signal for the solemn Princess of Asturias Awards ceremony 2025Further informationThe presence of visual media will be restricted at the meetings featuring Laureates Byung-Chul Han and Mario Draghi.
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