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Joint Laureate in 1999, together with John Glenn, Chiaki Mukai and Pedro Duque, considered “the architects of the pacific exploration of the universe”.

He received the Award jointly in 1990 together with Salvador Moncada.

Considered the foremost activist of architecture by the specialized press, Shigeru Ban has achieved international prestige for being able to provide shelters and temporary housing as a rapid, effective response to extreme and devastating situations caused mostly by natural disasters

At 11:00am today, Tuesday 21st June, at the Royal Palace in Madrid.

36 nominations encompassing 17 different nationalities are in the running for this Award, the last of eight international awards that are bestowed each year by the Princess of Asturias Foundation, now in their 42nd year.

Scientific experts in the field of artificial intelligence Geoffrey Hinton (Canadian and British), Yann LeCun (French and American), Yoshua Bengio (Canadian) and Demis Hassabis (British) have been bestowed with the 2022 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, as announced today by the Jury responsible for conferring said Award.

47 nominations encompassing 16 different nationalities are in the running for this Award, the seventh of eight international awards that are bestowed each year by the Princess of Asturias Foundation, now in their 42nd year.