Gregori Aminoff Prize
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The Gregori Aminoff Prize is an international prize awarded since 1979 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
in the field of crystallography
, rewarding "a documented, individual contribution in the field of crystallography, including areas concerned with the dynamics of the formation and dissolution of crystal structures. Some preference should be shown for work evincing elegance in the approach to the problem."
The prize, which is named in memory of the Swedish scientist and artist Gregori Aminoff (1883-1947), since 1923 Professor of Mineralogy at the Swedish Museum of Natural History
, was endowed through a bequest by his widow Birgit Broomé-Aminoff. The prize can be shared by several winners.
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences or Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden. The Academy is an independent, non-governmental scientific organization which acts to promote the sciences, primarily the natural sciences and mathematics.The Academy was founded on 2...
in the field of crystallography
Crystallography
Crystallography is the experimental science of the arrangement of atoms in solids. The word "crystallography" derives from the Greek words crystallon = cold drop / frozen drop, with its meaning extending to all solids with some degree of transparency, and grapho = write.Before the development of...
, rewarding "a documented, individual contribution in the field of crystallography, including areas concerned with the dynamics of the formation and dissolution of crystal structures. Some preference should be shown for work evincing elegance in the approach to the problem."
The prize, which is named in memory of the Swedish scientist and artist Gregori Aminoff (1883-1947), since 1923 Professor of Mineralogy at the Swedish Museum of Natural History
Swedish Museum of Natural History
The Swedish Museum of Natural History , in Stockholm, is one of two major museums of natural history in Sweden, the other one being located in Gothenburg....
, was endowed through a bequest by his widow Birgit Broomé-Aminoff. The prize can be shared by several winners.
| Year | Name | Citation |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Paul Peter Ewald Paul Peter Ewald Paul Peter Ewald was a German-born U.S. crystallographer and physicist, a pioneer of X-ray diffraction methods.-Education:... (United States) |
"For his fundamental contributions to the development of the science of crystallography." |
| 1980 | (No prize awarded) | |
| 1981 | Charles Frank (United Kingdom) | "For your fundamental contributions to the development of the science of crystallography." |
| 1982 | Gunnar Hägg (Sweden) | "For his pioneering application of x-ray crystallography in inorganic chemistry." |
| 1983 | J. M. Robertson (United Kingdom) | "For your fundamental contributions to the development of the science of crystallography." |
| 1984 | David Harker (United States) | "For your fundamental contributions to the development of methods in X-ray crystallography." |
| 1985 | André Guinier André Guinier André Guinier was a French physicist who did important work in the field of X-ray diffraction and solid-state physics. He worked at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, then taught at the University of Paris and later at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay... (France) |
"For your fundamental experimental and theoretical studies of the dispersion of X-rays with application to the study of structures of condensed systems." |
| 1986 | Erwin Félix Bertaut (France) | "Pour vos ouvrages eminents en cristallographie théorique et expérimentale, en particulier concernant les structures magnétiques." |
| 1987 | Otto Kratky Otto Kratky Otto Kratky was an Austrian physicist. He is best known for his contribution to the small-angle X-ray scattering method and for the Kratky plot... (Austria) |
"Für die Entwicklung der Kleinwinkelmethode bei Röntgen Studien der Struktur von Makromolekülen." |
| 1988 | Isabella L. Karle (United States) | "For her eminent crystallographic investigations of complicated natural products." |
| 1989 | Arne Magnéli (Sweden) | "For his epoch-making crystallographic studies of the building principles oxide compounds, which decisively have changed the view of the relations between stoichiometry and structure in inorganic chemistry." |
| 1990 | Jack Dunitz (Switzerland) | "For your eminent way of using structure analysis as a tool for studying different chemical problems." |
| 1991 | David Phillips David Chilton Phillips David Chilton Phillips, Baron Phillips of Ellesmere, KBE, FRS is considered to be a founding father of the now expanding field of structural biology and was an influential figure in science and government... (United Kingdom) |
"For his fundamental results on the catalytic mechanism of enzymes." |
| 1992 | Michael M. Woolfson (United Kingdom) | "For your development of direct methods for statistical phase determination of chrystal structures." |
| 1993 | Clifford G. Shull (United States) | "For your development and application of neutron diffraction methods for studies of atomic and magnetic structures of solids." |
| 1994 | Michael G. Rossmann (United States) | "For your fundamental methodological work on the utilization of non-crystallographic symmetry, with its especially important applications within protein and virus crystallography." |
| 1995 | Hugo M. Rietveld Hugo Rietveld Hugo M. Rietveld is a Dutch crystallographer and one of the most prominent crystallographers of the 20th century. He is famous for his invention of the Rietveld refinement method, which is used for the characterisation of crystalline materials from powder diffraction data... (Netherlands) |
"In recognition of his development of profile refinement methods for the analysis of powder diffraction data." |
| 1996 | Philip Coppens Philip Coppens (crystallographer) Philip Coppens is a chemist and crystallographer.Coppens received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Amsterdam. He is a SUNY Distinguished Professor and holder of the Henry M. Woodburn Chair of Chemistry at the State University of New York at Buffalo... (United States) |
"In recognition of your outstanding methodological and structure chemical achievements in Crystallography, especially the studies of electron distribution in different types of chemical bonds." |
| 1997 | Wayne A. Hendrickson (United States) | "For your contributions to phase angle determination of macromolecular crystals using anomalous dispersion and measurements at multiple wavelengths." |
| 1998 | Pietro Marten De Wolff (Netherlands), Aloysio Janner (Netherlands), Ted Janssen (Netherlands) | All: "For your contributions to the theory and practise of modulated structure refinements." |
| 1999 | Richard Henderson Richard Henderson (molecular biologist) Richard Henderson FRS is a Scottish molecular biologist and pioneer in the field of electron microscopy of biological molecules.-Career:... (United Kingdom) , Nigel Unwin Nigel Unwin Nigel Peter Nigel Tripp Unwin FRS is a British neuroscientist, Emeritus Scientist, and was Joint Head of Neurobiology Division, Laboratory of Molecular Biology from 2003 until 2008.-Life:... (United Kingdom) |
Both: "For your development of methods for structure determination of biological macromolecules using electron diffraction." |
| 2000 | Dan Shechtman Dan Shechtman Dan Shechtman is the Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, an Associate of the US Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, and Professor of Materials Science at Iowa State University. On April 8, 1982, while on sabbatical at the U.S... (Israel) |
"For your discovery of quasicrystals." |
| 2001 | Kenneth C. Holmes (Germany) | "For his pioneering development of methods to study biological macromolecules, in particular muscle proteins, by synchroton radiation." |
| 2002 | Leslie Leiserowitz (Israel), Meir Lahav (Israel) | Both: "for your fundamental studies of crystal growth and application to separation of enantiomers and for your studies of surface structures by synchrotron radiation" |
| 2003 | Axel Brunger (United States), T. Alwyn Jones (Sweden) | Brünger: "for his development of refinement techniques for macromolecules". Jones: "for his pioneering development of methods to interpret electron density maps and to build models of biological macromolecules with the aid of computer graphics" |
| 2004 | (No prize awarded) | |
| 2005 | Ho-Kwang Mao Ho-Kwang Mao Ho-Kwang Mao is an eminent American geologist and Staff Scientist at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science.-Family:... (United States) |
"for his pioneering research of solid materials at ultrahigh pressures and temperatures" |
| 2006 | Stephen Harrison, Harvard University and David Stuart, Oxford University | "for their remarkable contributions in virus crystallography" |
| 2007 | Sumio Iijima Sumio Iijima Sumio Iijima is a Japanese physicist, often cited as the discoverer of carbon nanotubes. Although carbon nanotubes had been observed prior to his "discovery", Iijima's 1991 paper generated unprecedented interest in the carbon nanostructures and has since fueled intense research in the area of... |
"for his structural studies of carbon nanotubes" |
| 2008 | Hans Eklund Hans Eklund Hans Eklund is a Swedish football manager, and former football player. He is currently the assistant manager in Landskrona BoIS. In his active career, Eklund played seven games for the Sweden national football team.- Playing career :... |
"for his crystallographic studies of ribonucleotide reductase" |
| 2009 | George M. Sheldrick and Gérard Bricogne | "for his developments on the division of structure chemical" |
| 2010 | So Iwata | "for his seminal crystallographic studies of membrane proteins. Using state-of-the-art crystallographic methods, he has elucidated vital biological functions within the fields of cellular respiration, photosynthesis and molecular transport" |
| 2011 | Lia Addadi and Stephen Weiner | "for their crystallographic studies of biomineralization processes, which have led to an understanding of mechanisms of mineral formation" |
| 2012 | Marat Yusupo, Gulnara Yusupova and Harry F. Noller Harry F. Noller Harry F. Noller is an American biochemist, and since 1992 the director of the University of California, Santa Cruz's Center for the Molecular Biology of RNA... |
"for their crystallographic studies on ribosomes, translators of the code of life" |