The National Prize for Natural Sciences () was created in 1992 as one of the replacements for the National Prize for Sciences under Law 19169. The other two prizes in this same area are for Exact Sciences and Applied Sciences and Technologies.
It is part of the National Prize of Chile.
Winners 1992, Jorge Allende (biochemistry) 1994, Humberto Maturana (neurobiology) 1996, (hydrobiology) 1998, Juan Antonio Garbarino Bacigalupo (chemistry) 2000, (biophysics) 2002, Ramón Latorre (biophysics) 2004, Pedro Labarca Prado (biophysics) 2006, Cecilia Hidalgo Tapia (biochemistry) 2008, (neurobiology) 2010, Mary Kalin Arroyo (botany) 2012, (marine biology) 2014, Ligia Gargallo (chemistry) 2016, Francisco Rothhammer Engel (genetics) 2018, (ecology) 2020, Francisco Bozinovic (integrative biology) 2022, (biochemistry) 2024, José Zagal Moya (electrochemistry)
See also List of biology awards List of earth sciences awards List of chemistry awards List of medicine awards List of neuroscience awards List of psychology awards CONICYT
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