Prix Gregori-Aminoff

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Le prix Gregori-Aminoff est un prix international créé en 1979 et délivré par l'Académie royale des sciences de Suède dans le domaine de la cristallographie. Il récompense « une contribution documentée et individuelle dans le domaine de la cristallographie, comprenant les domaines de la dynamique de cristallisation et de dissolution des structures cristallines. On privilégiera les travaux montrant une certaine élégance dans l'approche du problème. »[1]

Prix Gregori-Aminoff
Organisateur Académie royale des sciences de Suède
Pays Drapeau de la Suède Suède
Date de création 1979

Historique

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Gregori Aminoff (1883-1947) était un artiste et un scientifique suédois, devenu professeur de minéralogie au Muséum suédois d'histoire naturelle en 1923. Le prix fut créé à la demande de sa veuve, Birgit Broomé-Aminoff. Il peut être partagé entre plusieurs lauréats[2].

Lauréats

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Year Name Citation[3]
1979 Paul Peter Ewald (États-Unis) « pour ses contributions fondamentales au développement de la science de cristallographie. »
1980 (Prix non attribué)
1981 Charles Frank (Royaume-Uni) « pour ses contributions fondamentales au développement de la science de cristallographie. »
1982 Gunnar Hägg (Suède) "For his pioneering application of x-ray crystallography in inorganic chemistry."
1983 J. M. Robertson (Royaume-Uni) "For your fundamental contributions to the development of the science of crystallography."
1984 David Harker (États-Unis) "For your fundamental contributions to the development of methods in X-ray crystallography."
1985 André Guinier (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 éminents en cristallographie théorique et expérimentale, en particulier concernant les structures magnétiques."
1987 Otto Kratky (Autriche) "Für die Entwicklung der Kleinwinkelmethode bei Röntgen Studien der Struktur von Makromolekülen."
1988 Isabella L. Karle (États-Unis) "For her eminent crystallographic investigations of complicated natural products."
1989 Arne Magnéli (Suède) "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 (Suisse) "For your eminent way of using structure analysis as a tool for studying different chemical problems."
1991 David Phillips (Royaume-Uni) "For his fundamental results on the catalytic mechanism of enzymes."
1992 Michael M. Woolfson (Royaume-Uni) "For your development of direct methods for statistical phase determination of chrystal structures."
1993 Clifford G. Shull (États-Unis) "For your development and application of neutron diffraction methods for studies of atomic and magnetic structures of solids."
1994 Michael G. Rossmann (États-Unis) "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 (Pays-Bas) "In recognition of his development of profile refinement methods for the analysis of powder diffraction data."
1996 Philip Coppens (États-Unis) "In recognition of your outstanding methodological and structure chemical achievements in Crystallography, especially the studies of electrone distribution in different types of chemical bonds."
1997 Wayne A. Hendrickson (États-Unis) "For your contributions to phase angle determination of macromolecular crystals using anomalous dispersion and measurements at multiple wavelengths."
1998 Pietro Marten De Wolff (Pays-Bas), Aloysio Janner (Pays-Bas), Ted Janssen (Pays-Bas) All: "For your contributions to the theory and practise of modulated structure refinements."
1999 Richard Henderson (Royaume-Uni), Nigel Unwin (Royaume-Uni) Both: "For your development of methods for structure determination of biological macromolecules using electron diffraction."
2000 Dan Shechtman (Israël) "For your discovery of quasicrystals."
2001 Kenneth Holmes (Royaume-Uni) "For his pioneering development of methods to study biological macromolecules, in particular muscle proteins, by synchroton radiation."
2002 Leslie Leiserowitz (Israël), Meir Lahav (Israël) 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 (États-Unis), T. Alwyn Jones (Suède) 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 (États-Unis) "for his pioneering research of solid materials at ultrahigh pressures and temperatures"
2006 Stephen Harrison, Harvard University et David Ian Stuart, Oxford University "for their remarkable contributions in virus crystallography"
2007 Sumio Iijima "for his structural studies of carbon nanotubes"
2008 Hans Eklund "for his crystallographic studies of ribonucleotide reductase"
2009 George M. Sheldrick et 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 "for their crystallographic studies of biomineralization processes, which have led to an understanding of mechanisms of mineral formation"
Stephen Weiner
2012 Marat Yusupov "for their crystallographic studies on ribosomes, translators of the code of life"
Gulnara Yusupova
Harry F. Noller
2013 Carlo Gatti "for developing experimental and theoretical methods to study electron density in crystals, and using them to determine molecular and crystalline properties"
Mark Spackman
2014 Yigong Shi "for his groundbreaking crystallographic studies of proteins and protein complexes that regulate programmed cell death"
2015 Ian Robinson "for his development of diffraction methods for studying surfaces and nanomaterials"
2016 Poul Nissen "for their fundamental contributions to understanding the structural basis for ATP-driven translocation of ions across membranes"
Chikashi Toyoshima
2017 Natalia Dubrovinskala "for their development of new methodology for in-situ experimental determination of crystal structures under extreme conditions of high temperature and pressure"
Leonid Dubrovinsky
2018 Piet Gros "for his fundamental contributions to understanding the structural basis for the complement system-mediated innate immune response"
2019 Michael O'Keeffe "for their fundamental contributions to the development of reticular chemistry
Omar M. Yaghi
2020 Jian-Ren Shen “for their fundamental contributions to the understanding of biological redox metal clusters”
Douglas Rees
2021 Henry Champan “for their fundamental contributions to the development of X-ray free electron laser based structural biology”
Janos Hajdu
John Spence
2022 Elena Conti “for structural studies of synthesis and regulated degradation of RNA”
Patrick Cramer
Seth Darst
2023 Olga Kennard "for pioneering work to establish molecular structure databases"
2024 Hao Wu "for her discoveries by crystallography of the assembly mechanisms of large oligomeric signaling complexes in innate immunity, a paradigm-shifting concept in signal transduction"
  1. The Aminoff Prize is intended to reward 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. Gregori Aminoff Prize
  2. Biographie de Gregori Aminoff
  3. Extrait des pages officielles de l'Académie royale des sciences de Suède, voir [1]