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The European Crystallographic Association has awarded the second Max Perutz Prize to Prof. Eleanor J. Dodson for developing, implementing, teaching and applying the best tools available to produce macromolecular structures of highest quality. Eleanor Dodson is an unusual scientist who has made unusual and remarkable contributions. Since the early years […]

The European Crystallographic Association has awarded the 2004 Max Perutz Prize to Professor George Sheldrick. Professor George Sheldrick is one of the most widely known crystallographers in the field. He made seminal contributions to the development of direct methods and helped to transfer the methodology into a straightforward procedure for […]

The European Crystallographic Association is to award the third European Crystallography Prize to Prof. Carmelo Giacovazzo of the University of Bari, Italy. Prof. Giacovazzo is being recognized for his major theoretical and practical contributions to the solution of the phase problem in a wide spectrum of applications. The European Crystallography […]

The European Crystallographic Association is to award the second European Crystallography Prize to Prof. Jochen R. Schneider of the HASYLAB at DESY, Hamburg, Germany. Prof. Schneider is being recognized for his pioneering work on the application of gamma-ray spectroscopy and his high energy synchrotron radiation studies, as well as his […]

The European Crystallographic Association has awarded the first European Crystallography Prize to Professor Ada Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovoth, Israel and the Max-Planck Research Unit for Ribosomal Research, DESY, Hamburg, Germany, for her pioneering achievements in structural studies on the ribosome, the universal cellular organelle on which […]