The career prize, which distinguishes a career which has contributed to the advance of radio science in Portugal, was awarded to António Amândio Sanches de Magalhães, an engineer by training who has been a pioneer in national radio-astronomy. Responsible for planning and managing construction of Portugal's first micro-computerised solar radio spectrograph, António Magalhães worked as a researcher at the Astronomy Observatory and at the Geo-Space Sciences Research Centre of Porto University for a great part of his working life. The decision to honour his career with this prize was taken unanimously by the Portuguese Committee of URSI.
