María secrets win CAF-Elhuyar awards

2003/01/20 Carton Virto, Eider - Elhuyar Zientzia

• Sariak

The authors of the article are Aitziber Mendiguren, Joseba Pineda and Jose Angel Ruiz. The jury has clearly pointed out the useful and beneficial aspects of hemp pharmacological content, as well as the negative aspects. As in the case of the explanation of any other drug, historical, biochemical and physiological aspects of the subject have been treated, maintaining an adequate scientific level and without falling into simplifications. The article has been valued as “practical, readable, well classified and full of information” so it has received the first prize.

The second prize went to the work that analyzes the situation of the beech trees in Nafarroa Garaia. Gustavo Amores Olazagirre has shown with great precision the situation of the beech trees of Nafarroa Garaia. The result of fieldwork has been translated into paper and has clearly explained how access to pollution has been in these beautiful places.

The jury stressed that this research has given him much to think about the situation of our natural spaces and, even if it is from here, to a large extent, the scientific seriousness and the desire for disclosure that this work shows is something omnipresent.

The third prize went to Cleopatra, pearls and luxury, because "by addressing a simple theme, writers have managed to make a delicious craft, bringing pearls closer to the level of quantum physics." The jury has described as a resounding work that of the youngest Itxaso Apraiz and Ohiane Lakar, "to distribute in school or to read in bed or in the bathroom with their partner. To a teaching and entertainment that does well the dissemination of science."

Special prize for young writers

The special prize for young writers has been awarded for the work "The Hidden Children of Nature" by Gorka Azkune. This young twenty year old computer student has not just begun to divulge, since in the last edition he won the second prize. He then presented the important and difficult superstring theory in an elegant, attractive and understandable way.

This year Gorka has addressed the theory of black holes. He has carefully presented the theory of black holes, that of stars that cannot be observed directly. How they anticipated, the recognition of their existence, some of the characteristics that are known today, the phenomena that are explained through them...

All this explaining Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. The jury valued the current issue, the quality of the scientific content and the style of the Basque language used, "the simple and comprehensive presentation of a hard and heavy topic".

In this year's call, a total of 17 articles have been presented, all of them of good quality according to the jury. The award-winning articles will be published together with the February issue of Elhuyar Zientzia eta Teknika magazine.