Both academics Bello House were chosen to integrate this instance who today heads the national award, Maria Teresa Ruiz.

As a "huge personal satisfaction for having achieved one of the most important scientific awards in my academic career", called the Member of the Faculty of chemical and pharmaceutical sciences and Professor of the University of Chile, Sergio Lavandero, your choice to integrate the Chilean Academy of Sciences as a member of number, recognition that shared with the academic of the Geophysics Department of the Faculty of physical sciences and mathematics, Jose Angel Rutllant.

For Professor Rutllant, in both, the passing of Member to Member, is "a great responsibility". This instance, noted scholar, It also impacts the discipline of Geophysics "that is my specialty, was subrrepresentada”.

Professor Lavandero also had words for 'remember, recognize and acknowledge the help of many individuals and institutions that have been key in my development", among which he mentioned their "trainers", Mario Sapag-Hagar, Arturo Ferreira Vigouroux, Takami Oka, Ramón Corbalán blacksmiths and Cecilia Hidalgo Tapia, those who "with their examples of life I led in this fascinating and exciting scientific road".

He also director of the ACCDiS also thanked the faculties of chemical and pharmaceutical sciences and medicine, "by giving me an academic environment stimulating", as well as its "talented undergraduate students, "postgraduate and post-doctorate that throughout this career they trusted me and gave me the opportunity to guide them and encourage them to be new / I scientific / os".

On the same line Rutllant - Professor and expert in atmospheric sciences- said that today, in the culmination of his career, He is interested in 'education', area in which "there is much to do and the Academy has to play an important role, because often not consulted on middle and basic education curricula. There the science must be done otherwise, must be something entertaining, something to teach him to think of the children, that is the fundamental objective to education".

Professor Rutllant also thanked the Professor Nibaldo Bahamonde, academic of the U. Chile's national prize for natural sciences 1996, also member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences.

The members of the academies that make up the Institute of Chile, including that of science, they can be of four kinds: number, Corresponding national, Foreign correspondents and fees.

Of these four, only the first enjoy voting in discussions that are carried out. The Academy of Sciences is composed up to 36 members of number and whose election is in perpetuity.

El profesor Sergio Lavandero actualmente preside el Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Enfermedades Crónicas (ACCDIS).

Professor Sergio Lavandero currently chairs the Center for advanced studies of chronic diseases (ACCDIS).

El profesor Rutllant es profesor Titular del Departamento de Geofísica de la FCFM.

Professor Rutllant is Professor Titular of the Department of Geophysics of the FCFM.