“With the Chronicle Prize, the value of science and culture is recognized”

In 2021, Susana Lisano was honored with the Chronicle in Science and Technology Award, almost as it is, and on this occasion, it was her turn to present the award and award it to this year’s winner, Susana Lopez Chariton. Distinguished and distinguished researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

In an interview, the astrophysicist stated that the Chronicle Prize initiative awarded for the first year through her foundation is relevant news and thanked that spaces dedicated to dissemination of culture, art and science still exist across our pages.

“Creating the Crónica Award through your organization means that recognition will go beyond the limits of the journal.”

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He added his thanks to this publishing house and to the Kronica Prize because, as for many colleagues, he realizes that it was one of the few institutions that recognized the value of science and culture, its excellence in both, and that it is not. Doubt the welfare of society.

The researcher from UNAM’s Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Campus Morelia, as well as the president of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, added that these spaces allow access to the population and that through knowledge they will be able to see their problems from another angle. every day.

“The Crónica Prize is very valuable and valued by the community in its various regions, and if it can be expanded and carried through through the institution, it is excellent. It is like seeing the award go beyond in Mexican society.”

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Despite the wide horizon of the award, the world emphasizes that the origin of this initiative should not be forgotten:

“The laureates of the prize are all greatly recognized in their different fields, and in this way it has become a much appreciated and recognized recognition, but we must also recognize that it was the newspaper, on the initiative of Jorge Kahwagi, who had the idea, pursued and pushed it.” The genesis of this The distinction, which is now so important that the Chronicle Prize, is its own and we must acknowledge it. We hope that it will now have a greater reach and will continue beyond the newspaper, but we must not forget where it originated.”