Princess of Asturias Awards Awarded
2010 Princess of Asturias Awards Awarded
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Richard SerraRichard Serra (born November 2, 1939) is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal.Serra was involved in the Process Art M.. | Arts |
Tribeca New York United States |
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Alain TouraineAlain Touraine (born 3 August 1925) is a French sociologist. He is research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where he founded the Centre d'étude des mouve.. | Humanitarianism |
Paris Île-de-France France |
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Zygmunt BaumanZygmunt Bauman (born 19 November 1925) is a Polish sociologist. He has resided in England since 1971 after being driven out of Poland by an anti-semitic campaign engineered by the Communist .. | Humanitarianism |
Leeds England United Kingdom |
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Amin MaaloufAmin Maalouf (born 25 February 1949) is a Lebanese-born French author. Has lived in France since 1976.Although his native language is Arabic, he writes in French, and his works have been tra.. | Literature |
Beirut Beyrouth Lebanon |
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David JuliusDavid J. Julius (born November 4, 1955) is an American physiologist. He is a professor at the University of California, San Francisco.A native of Brighton Beach, Julius earned his undergradu.. | Science and Engineering |
San Francisco California United States |
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Baruch MinkeBaruch Minke ( 1940 ) is a biochemist and geneticist Israel. He discovered ion channels TPR, involved in sensory sensations and pain .In 2010 he received the Princess of Asturias Award for T.. | Science and Engineering |
Tel Aviv Tel Aviv Israel |
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Linda R. WatkinsLinda R. Watkins ( 1954 ) is a biochemistry and physiologist US, discoverer of glial cells as key in the treatment of neuronal pain.In 2010 he received the Princess of Asturias Award for Tec.. | Science and Engineering |
Boulder Colorado United States |
2011 Princess of Asturias Awards Awarded
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Riccardo MutiRiccardo Muti (born 28 July 1941) is an Italian conductor. He holds two music directorships: the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini. Previously he held po.. | Arts |
Napoli Campania Italy |
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Leonard CohenLeonard Norman Cohen(born 21 September 1934) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist. His work has explored religion, politics, isolation and personal relationships.Co.. | Literature |
Westmount Quebec Canada |
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Howard GardnerHoward Earl Gardner (born July 11, 1943) is an American developmental psychologist and the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School .. | Social sciences |
Scranton Pennsylvania United States |
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Joseph AltmanJoseph Altman is an American biologist who has worked in the field of neurobiology.Altman discovered adult neurogenesis, the creation of new neurons in the adult brain, in the 1960s.As an in.. | Science and Engineering |
Cambridge Massachusetts United States |
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Arturo Alvarez BuyllaArturo Alvarez Buylla Roces (Mexico City, 1958) is a neurobiologist Mexican , from Asturias, Professor of Anatomy and Neurosurgery at the University of California-San Francisco,specializing .. | Science and Engineering |
San Francisco California United States |
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Giacomo RizzolattiGiacomo Rizzolatti (born April 28, 1937) is an Italian neurophysiologist who works at the University of Parma. He is the Senior Scientist of the research team that discovered mirror neurons .. | Science and Engineering |
Parma Emilia-Romagna Italy |