Gregori Aminoff Prize
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.
| Year | Name | Citation |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Paul Peter Ewald (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 (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 (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 (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 crystal 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 (Netherlands) | "In recognition of his development of profile refinement methods for the analysis of powder diffraction data." |
| 1996 | Philip Coppens (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 (United Kingdom), Nigel Unwin (United Kingdom) | Both: "For your development of methods for structure determination of biological macromolecules using electron diffraction." |
| 2000 | Dan Shechtman (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 synchrotron 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 (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 (Japan) | "for his structural studies of carbon nanotubes" |
| 2008 | Hans Eklund (Sweden) | "for his crystallographic studies of ribonucleotide reductase" |
| 2009 | George M. Sheldrick (Great Britain) and Gérard Bricogne (France) | "for his developments on the division of structure chemical" |
| 2010 | So Iwata (Japan) | "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 (Israel) and Stephen Weiner (Israel) | "for their crystallographic studies of biomineralization processes, which have led to an understanding of mechanisms of mineral formation" |
| 2012 | Marat Yusupov (France), Gulnara Yusupova (France) and Harry F. Noller (United States) | "for their crystallographic studies on ribosomes, translators of the code of life" |
| 2013 | Carlo Gatti (Italy) and Mark Spackman (Australia) | "for developing experimental and theoretical methods to study electron density in crystals, and using them to determine molecular and crystalline properties" |
| 2014 | Yigong Shi (China) | "for his groundbreaking crystallographic studies of proteins and protein complexes that regulate programmed cell death" |
| 2015 | Ian Robinson (United Kingdom) | "for his development of diffraction methods for studying surfaces and nanomaterials" |