The awards of the Spanish physics community champion science as a strategic activity with the power to advance social well-being
Physicists whose research has furthered the advance of transformative technologies like quantum cryptography or new photonic materials, and others working to expand the public’s scientific culture, took center stage this evening at the presentation ceremony for the awards of the Spanish Royal Society of Physics (RSEF) and BBVA Foundation. Francisco González, the BBVA Foundation President, stressed the need for political leaders to equip themselves with greater scientific knowledge, to understand science’s value as a force for development and to promote it as a ‘strategic’ activity, at an event held in the Foundation’s Madrid headquarters.
19 December, 2017
The RSEF–BBVA Foundation awards have been granted annually since 2007 to outstanding Spanish physicists, with particular attention to emerging research talent. The awards were established by the RSEF in 1958 and are now a standard fixture in the Spanish physics calendar, with a presentation ceremony that brings together many of the discipline’s leading experts.