News View All García-Diego International Prize awards ceremony: tenth and eleventh editions Garcia Diego international prize The awards ceremony for the García-Diego International Prize, tenth and eleventh editions, was held at Madrid’s Chartered Institute of Civil Engineers on Wednesday, 27 April. The tenth edition prize was awarded, ex aequo, to the following authors: Juan José Nieto Callén for: La fabricación de pólvora negra en el Imperio español [Black powder manufacture in the Spanish Empire] Vicente Ruiz García for: Españoles contra el escorbuto. Empirismo, Ciencia y Tecnología de los Alimentos al servicio de las grandes travesías oceánicas de la Edad Moderna [Spaniards vs scurvy: food empiricism, science and technology at the service of long oceanic voyages in the Modern Age]. The three second prizes awarded in the eleventh edition went to: Vicente Garcia Ruiz for Desafío contra la fiebre amarilla. Medicina, tecnología química y biotecnología contra la pandemia que vino del mar (ss.XVII-XX) [Yellow fever and its challenges: medicine, chemical engineering and biotechnology to combat a sea-borne pandemic (seventeenth to twentieth centuries] Salvador Gómez Arellano for El Imperio español azucarero en la Nueva España. Tecnología en Morelos, la azucarera de México [The Spanish sugar empire in New Spain: technology at Morelos, leading sugar producer in Mexicol] Enrique Ramírez Sánchez for Sistemas antisísmicos en la arquitectura histórica de fábrica (S. XII-XVII) [Anti-seismic systems in historical masonry architecture (twelfth to seventeenth centuries)]. Speakers at the awards ceremony included Pedro Navascués Palacio and José María Goicolea Ruigómez, Fundación Juanelo Turriano President and Vice-President, respectively. The Chartered Institute of Civil Engineers was represented by Fernando Ruiz Ruiz de Gopegui.
García-Diego International Prize awards ceremony: tenth and eleventh editions Garcia Diego international prize The awards ceremony for the García-Diego International Prize, tenth and eleventh editions, was held at Madrid’s Chartered Institute of Civil Engineers on Wednesday, 27 April. The tenth edition prize was awarded, ex aequo, to the following authors: Juan José Nieto Callén for: La fabricación de pólvora negra en el Imperio español [Black powder manufacture in the Spanish Empire] Vicente Ruiz García for: Españoles contra el escorbuto. Empirismo, Ciencia y Tecnología de los Alimentos al servicio de las grandes travesías oceánicas de la Edad Moderna [Spaniards vs scurvy: food empiricism, science and technology at the service of long oceanic voyages in the Modern Age]. The three second prizes awarded in the eleventh edition went to: Vicente Garcia Ruiz for Desafío contra la fiebre amarilla. Medicina, tecnología química y biotecnología contra la pandemia que vino del mar (ss.XVII-XX) [Yellow fever and its challenges: medicine, chemical engineering and biotechnology to combat a sea-borne pandemic (seventeenth to twentieth centuries] Salvador Gómez Arellano for El Imperio español azucarero en la Nueva España. Tecnología en Morelos, la azucarera de México [The Spanish sugar empire in New Spain: technology at Morelos, leading sugar producer in Mexicol] Enrique Ramírez Sánchez for Sistemas antisísmicos en la arquitectura histórica de fábrica (S. XII-XVII) [Anti-seismic systems in historical masonry architecture (twelfth to seventeenth centuries)]. Speakers at the awards ceremony included Pedro Navascués Palacio and José María Goicolea Ruigómez, Fundación Juanelo Turriano President and Vice-President, respectively. The Chartered Institute of Civil Engineers was represented by Fernando Ruiz Ruiz de Gopegui.