The Günther Laukien Prize is a prize presented at the European Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference "to recognize recent cutting-edge experimental
NMR research with a high probability of enabling beneficial new applications".
The prize was established in 1999 in memoriam to
Günther Laukien Günther Laukien (23 May 1923, in Eschringen (Saarland) – 29 April 1997, in Karlsruhe) was a German physicist and entrepreneur. He is known for his pioneering work in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and for his role in the Bruker company. ...
, who was a pioneer in NMR research. The prize money of $20,000 is financed by
Bruker
Bruker Corporation is an American manufacturer of scientific instruments for molecular and materials research, as well as for industrial and applied analysis. It is headquartered in Billerica, Massachusetts, and is the publicly traded parent compa ...
, the company founded by Laukien.
The recipients of the Günther Laukien Prize have been:
* 2022 Michael Garwood
* 2021
Gareth Morris
Gareth Charles Walter Morris (13 May 192014 February 2007) was a British flautist. He was the principal flautist of a number of London orchestras including the Boyd Neel Orchestra before joining the Philharmonia Orchestra. He was the princip ...
* 2020
Simon Duckett,
Konstantin Ivanov, and
Warren S. Warren
* 2019
Geoffrey Bodenhausen
Geoffrey Bodenhausen (born 1951) is a French chemist specializing in nuclear magnetic resonance, being highly cited in his field. He is a Corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the American Phys ...
, and
Christian Griesinger
* 2018
Gerhard Wagner
* 2017 Kurt Zilm and Bernd Reif
* 2016 Robert S. Balaban and Peter van Zijl
* 2015 Arthur Palmer III
* 2014
Marc Baldus
Marc Baldus is a physicist and professor of NMR spectroscopy at Utrecht University. He is especially known for his work in the field of structural biology using solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (ssNMR) spectroscopy. He applies ssNMR methods ...
,
Mei Hong, Ann McDermott, Beat H. Meier,
Hartmut Oschkinat, and
Robert Tycko
* 2013
Clare Grey
Dame Clare Philomena Grey is Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Grey uses nuclear magne ...
* 2012 Klaes Golman and Jan Henrik Ardenkjaer-Larsen
* 2011 Daniel Rugar, John Mamin, and John Sidles
* 2010
Paul Callaghan
Sir Paul Terence Callaghan ( ; 19 August 1947 – 24 March 2012) was a New Zealand physicist who, as the founding director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology at Victoria University of Wellington, held t ...
* 2009 Daniel Weitekamp
* 2008
Malcolm Levitt
* 2007
Robert G. Griffin
* 2006 Thomas Szyperski, Eriks Kupce,
Ray Freeman, and
Rafael Bruschweiler
* 2005 Stephan Grzesiek
* 2004
Lewis E. Kay
* 2003 Jacob Schaefer
* 2002
Ad Bax, Aksel Bothner-By and James Prestegard
* 2001 Peter Boesiger, Klaas Prüßmann and Markus Weiger
* 2000
Lucio Frydman
* 1999 Konstantin Pervushin, Roland Riek, Gerhard Wider, and
Kurt Wuthrich
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In Turkish, Kurt means "Wolf" and is ...
See also
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List of physics awards
This list of physics awards is an index to articles about notable awards for physics.
The list includes lists of awards by the American Physical Society of the United States, and of the Institute of Physics of the United Kingdom, followed by a l ...
References
External links
European Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference
Physics awards
American science and technology awards
Nuclear magnetic resonance
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