Professor of Cognition and Education Chair John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs and associate professor of psychology at Harvard University, associate professor of neurology at Boston University School of Medicine and co-director of Harvard Project Zero. He received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981 and in 1990, received the University of Louisville's Grawemeyer Award in Education for his theory of multiple intelligences. More recently, he has conducted intensive studies of creators and exemplary leaders, studying the relationship between work off the charts in different domains and sense of social responsibility. He is the author of eighteen books, including: Frames of Mind; (Frames of Mind: the theory of multiple intelligences Mexico Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1987...) Art, Mind, and Brain (Art, mind and brain. Cognitive approach to creativity Barcelona Polity Press, 1997.), And Extraordinary Minds (Extraordinary Minds: four portraits to discover our own uniqueness Barcelona Kairos, 1999, 2nd ed.. .) in May 2011, Howard Gardner is awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences.