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), Professor of Mineralogy at the Swedish Museum of Natural History from 1923, was endowed through a bequest by his widow Birgit Broomé-Aminoff. The prize can be shared by several winners.

Recipients of the Prize Source: Royal Swedish Academy of Science

Year Laureate Country Institute Rationale Ref1979Paul Peter EwaldNot Listed"For his fundamental contributions to the development of the science of crystallography."1980(No prize awarded) 1981Charles Frank Not Listed"For your fundamental contributions to the development of the science of crystallography."1982Gunnar Hägg Not Listed"For his pioneering application of x-ray crystallography in inorganic chemistry."1983J. M. Robertson Not Listed"For your fundamental contributions to the development of the science of crystallography."1984David Harker Not Listed"For your fundamental contributions to the development of methods in X-ray crystallography."1985André Guinier Not Listed"For your fundamental experimental and theoretical studies of the dispersion of X-rays with application to the study of structures of condensed systems."1986Erwin Félix Bertaut Not Listed"Pour vos ouvrages eminents en cristallographie théorique et expérimentale, en particulier concernant les structures magnétiques."1987Otto Kratky Not Listed"Für die Entwicklung der Kleinwinkelmethode bei Röntgen Studien der Struktur von Makromolekülen."1988Isabella L. Karle Not Listed"For her eminent crystallographic investigations of complicated natural products."1989Arne Magnéli Not Listed"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."1990Jack Dunitz Not Listed"For your eminent way of using structure analysis as a tool for studying different chemical problems."1991David Phillips Not Listed"For his fundamental results on the catalytic mechanism of enzymes."1992Michael Mark Woolfson Not Listed"For your development of direct methods for statistical phase determination of crystal structures."1993Clifford G. Shull Not Listed"For your development and application of neutron diffraction methods for studies of atomic and magnetic structures of solids."1994Michael G. Rossmann Not Listed"For your fundamental methodological work on the utilization of non-crystallographic symmetry, with its especially important applications within protein and virus crystallography."1995Hugo M. Rietveld Not Listed"In recognition of his development of profile refinement methods for the analysis of powder diffraction data."1996Philip Coppens Not Listed"In recognition of your outstanding methodological and structure chemical achievements in Crystallography, especially the studies of electron distribution in different types of chemical bonds."1997Wayne A. Hendrickson Not Listed"For your contributions to phase angle determination of macromolecular crystals using anomalous dispersion and measurements at multiple wavelengths." 1998Pieter Maarten de Wolff Not Listed "For your contributions to the theory and practise of modulated structure refinements."Ted Janssen 1999Richard HendersonNot Listed"For your development of methods for structure determination of biological macromolecules using electron diffraction."Nigel Unwin2000Dan Shechtman Not Listed"For your discovery of quasicrystals."2001Kenneth C. Holmes Not Listed"For his pioneering development of methods to study biological macromolecules, in particular muscle proteins, by synchrotron radiation."2002Leslie Leiserowitz Weizmann Institute of Science"for your fundamental studies of crystal growth and application to separation of enantiomers and for your studies of surface structures by synchrotron radiation"Meir Lahav2003Axel Brunger Stanford University"for his development of refinement techniques for macromolecules"T. Alwyn JonesUppsala Universitet"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) 2005Ho-Kwang MaoGeophysical Laboratory"for his pioneering research of solid materials at ultrahigh pressures and temperatures"2006Stephen HarrisonHarvard University"for their remarkable contributions in virus crystallography"David StuartOxford University2007Sumio IijimaMeijo University"for his structural studies of carbon nanotubes"2008Hans EklundSwedish University of Agricultural Sciences"for his crystallographic studies of ribonucleotide reductase. The studies contribute to a detailed understanding of function and activity of an enzyme with a central biological role"2009George M. SheldrickUniversity of Göttingen"for their contributions to theoretical development and methodological implementation in crystallography"Gérard BricogneGlobal Phasing Ltd2010So IwataImperial College London"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"2011Lia AddadiWeizmann Institute of Science"for their crystallographic studies of biomineralization processes, which have led to an understanding of mechanisms of mineral formation"Stephen Weiner2012Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire"for their crystallographic studies on ribosomes, translators of the code of life"Harry F. NollerUniversity of California, Santa Cruz2013Carlo GattiInstitute of Molecular Sciences and Technology, Italian National Research Council (CNR-ISTM)"for developing experimental and theoretical methods to study electron density in crystals, and using them to determine molecular and crystalline properties"Mark Spackman University of Western Australia2014Yigong Shi Tsinghua University"for his groundbreaking crystallographic studies of proteins and protein complexes that regulate programmed cell death"2015Ian RobinsonLondon Centre for Nanotechnology"for his development of diffraction methods for studying surfaces and nanomaterials"2016Poul NissenAarhus University"for their fundamental contributions to understanding the structural basis for ATP-driven translocation of ions across membranes"Chikashi ToyoshimaUniversity of Tokyo2017Natalia DubrovinskaiaUniversity of Bayreuth"for their development of new methodology for in-situ experimental determination of crystal structures under extreme conditions of high temperature and pressure"Leonid Dubrovinsky2018Piet GrosUtrecht University"for his fundamental contributions to understanding the structural basis for the complement system-mediated innate immune response"2019Michael O'KeeffeArizona State University"for their fundamental contributions to the development of reticular chemistry"Omar M. YaghiUniversity of California, Berkeley2020Jian-Ren ShenOkayama University“for their fundamental contributions to the understanding of biological redox metal clusters”Douglas ReesCalifornia Institute of Technology2021Henry ChapmanDESY, University of Hamburg“for their fundamental contributions to the development of X-ray free electron laser based structural biology”Janos HajduUppsala UniversityJohn SpenceArizona State University2022Elena ContiMax Planck Institute of Biochemistry“for structural studies of synthesis and regulated degradation of RNA” Patrick CramerSeth DarstRockefeller University2023Olga KennardUniversity of Cambridge"for pioneering work to establish molecular structure databases"2024Hao WuHarvard Medical School"for her discoveries by crystallography of the assembly mechanisms of large oligomeric signaling complexes in innate immunity, a paradigm-shifting concept in signal transduction"2025Simon BillingeColumbia University"for a decisive contribution to making the pair distribution function a widely useful tool for structural and materials science"

CountryNumber of laureates19* (12 US-born)114China43332Switzerland 222Australia112Jordan 1DDR1

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