Astrophysics and genetics, protagonists of the Elhuyar Awards
Last week, Elhuyar, with the support of the railway company CAF, gave three scientific outreach awards, a scholarship and a meritorious prize.
In the scientific journalism section, Gorka Zabaleta, journalist of the magazine Baleike de Zumaia, was in charge of collecting the prize, with his work Universe was a very hot soup. The laureate was Ángel Uranga, a physicist at CERN. Isabel Mendizabal received the prize of a publicity article based on the thesis of her author with the work The Gypsy Origin, reflected in the DNA. The prize of the scientific release article has been for When Galaxies Meet, by the hand of Miguel Querejeta.
In addition to the prizes, the scientific creation scholarship has been awarded for the first time in society and the winning project has been Balorberriz. The winning group is as follows: Finally, the courses will be offered by Arlette Apraiz, Doltza Oararteta, Jaione Ortiz de Zarate, Maider Amutio, Nerea Andrés and Oihane Enbeita. The award for merit was received by the Institute for the Euskaldunization of Health, which has been working for 20 years.
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