Gregori Aminoff Prize

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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. [1] Some preference should be shown for work evincing elegance in the approach to the problem." [2] [1]

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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. [3] The prize can be shared by several winners. [3] [4] It is considered the Nobel prize for crystallography.

Recipients of the Prize

Source: Royal Swedish Academy of Science

YearLaureate [A] Country [B] Institute [C] Rationale [D] Ref
1979 Paul Peter Ewald Flag of the United States.svg  United States Not Listed"For his fundamental contributions to the development of the science of crystallography." [5]
1980(No prize awarded)
1981 Charles Frank Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Not Listed"For your fundamental contributions to the development of the science of crystallography." [6]
1982 Gunnar Hägg Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Not Listed"For his pioneering application of x-ray crystallography in inorganic chemistry." [7]
1983 J. M. Robertson Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Not Listed"For your fundamental contributions to the development of the science of crystallography." [8]
1984 David Harker Flag of the United States.svg  United States Not Listed"For your fundamental contributions to the development of methods in X-ray crystallography." [9]
1985 André Guinier Flag of France.svg  France 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." [10]
1986 Erwin Félix Bertaut Flag of France.svg  France Not Listed"Pour vos ouvrages eminents en cristallographie théorique et expérimentale, en particulier concernant les structures magnétiques." [11]
1987 Otto Kratky Flag of Austria.svg  Austria Not Listed"Für die Entwicklung der Kleinwinkelmethode bei Röntgen Studien der Struktur von Makromolekülen." [12]
1988 Isabella L. Karle Flag of the United States.svg  United States Not Listed"For her eminent crystallographic investigations of complicated natural products." [13]
1989 Arne Magnéli Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 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." [14]
1990 Jack Dunitz Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Switzerland Not Listed"For your eminent way of using structure analysis as a tool for studying different chemical problems." [15]
1991 David Phillips Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Not Listed"For his fundamental results on the catalytic mechanism of enzymes." [16]
1992 Michael Mark Woolfson Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Not Listed"For your development of direct methods for statistical phase determination of crystal structures." [17]
1993 Clifford G. Shull Flag of the United States.svg  United States Not Listed"For your development and application of neutron diffraction methods for studies of atomic and magnetic structures of solids." [18]
1994 Michael G. Rossmann Flag of the United States.svg  United States Not Listed"For your fundamental methodological work on the utilization of non-crystallographic symmetry, with its especially important applications within protein and virus crystallography." [19]
1995 Hugo M. Rietveld Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands Not Listed"In recognition of his development of profile refinement methods for the analysis of powder diffraction data." [20]
1996 Philip Coppens Flag of the United States.svg  United States 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." [21]
1997 Wayne A. Hendrickson Flag of the United States.svg  United States Not Listed"For your contributions to phase angle determination of macromolecular crystals using anomalous dispersion and measurements at multiple wavelengths." [22]
1998 Pieter Maarten de Wolff Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands Not Listed"For your contributions to the theory and practise of modulated structure refinements." [23] [24] [25]
Ted Janssen
Aloysio Janner  [ de ]Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Switzerland
1999 Richard Henderson Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Not Listed"For your development of methods for structure determination of biological macromolecules using electron diffraction." [26] [27]
Nigel Unwin
2000 Dan Shechtman Flag of Israel.svg  Israel Not Listed"For your discovery of quasicrystals." [28]
2001 Kenneth C. Holmes Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Not Listed"For his pioneering development of methods to study biological macromolecules, in particular muscle proteins, by synchrotron radiation." [29]
2002 Leslie Leiserowitz Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 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" [30] [31]
Meir Lahav
2003 Axel Brunger Flag of the United States.svg  United States Stanford University "for his development of refinement techniques for macromolecules" [32] [33]
T. Alwyn Jones Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Uppsala 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)
2005 Ho-Kwang Mao Flag of the United States.svg  United States Geophysical Laboratory "for his pioneering research of solid materials at ultrahigh pressures and temperatures" [34]
2006 Stephen Harrison Flag of the United States.svg  United States Harvard University "for their remarkable contributions in virus crystallography" [35] [36]
David Stuart Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Oxford University
2007 Sumio Iijima Flag of Japan.svg  Japan Meijo University "for his structural studies of carbon nanotubes" [37]
2008 Hans Eklund Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Swedish 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" [38]
2009 George M. Sheldrick Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain University of Göttingen "for their contributions to theoretical development and methodological implementation in crystallography" [39] [40]
Gérard Bricogne Flag of France.svg  France Global Phasing Ltd
2010 So Iwata Flag of Japan.svg  Japan Imperial 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" [41]
2011 Lia Addadi Flag of Israel.svg  Israel Weizmann Institute of Science "for their crystallographic studies of biomineralization processes, which have led to an understanding of mechanisms of mineral formation" [42]
Stephen Weiner
2012 Marat Yusupov  [ fr ]Flag of Russia.svg  Russia
Flag of France.svg  France 		Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire"for their crystallographic studies on ribosomes, translators of the code of life" [43]
Gulnara Yusupova  [ fr ]
Harry F. Noller Flag of the United States.svg  United States University of California, Santa Cruz
2013 Carlo Gatti Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Institute 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" [44]
Mark Spackman Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia University of Western Australia
2014 Yigong Shi Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China Tsinghua University "for his groundbreaking crystallographic studies of proteins and protein complexes that regulate programmed cell death" [45]
2015 Ian Robinson Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom London Centre for Nanotechnology "for his development of diffraction methods for studying surfaces and nanomaterials" [46]
2016 Poul Nissen Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark Aarhus University "for their fundamental contributions to understanding the structural basis for ATP-driven translocation of ions across membranes" [47]
Chikashi Toyoshima Flag of Japan.svg  Japan University of Tokyo
2017 Natalia Dubrovinskaia Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden University of Bayreuth "for their development of new methodology for in-situ experimental determination of crystal structures under extreme conditions of high temperature and pressure" [48]
Leonid Dubrovinsky
2018 Piet Gros Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands Utrecht University "for his fundamental contributions to understanding the structural basis for the complement system-mediated innate immune response" [49]
2019 Michael O'Keeffe Flag of England.svg  England
Flag of the United States.svg  United States 		Arizona State University "for their fundamental contributions to the development of reticular chemistry" [50]
Omar M. Yaghi Flag of Jordan.svg  Jordan
Flag of the United States.svg  United States 		University of California, Berkeley
2020 Jian-Ren Shen Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China Okayama University “for their fundamental contributions to the understanding of biological redox metal clusters” [51]
Douglas Rees Flag of the United States.svg  United States California Institute of Technology
2021 Henry Chapman Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom DESY, University of Hamburg “for their fundamental contributions to the development of X-ray free electron laser based structural biology” [52]
Janos Hajdu Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Uppsala University
John Spence Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 		Arizona State University
2022 Elena Conti Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry “for structural studies of synthesis and regulated degradation of RNA” [53]
Patrick Cramer Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Seth Darst Flag of the United States.svg  United States Rockefeller University
2023 Olga Kennard Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom University of Cambridge "for pioneering work to establish molecular structure databases" [54]
2024 Hao Wu Flag of the United States.svg  United States Harvard 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" [55]
2025 Simon Billinge Flag of the United States.svg  United States Columbia University "for a decisive contribution to making the pair distribution function a widely useful tool for structural and materials science" [56]

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Notes

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^ C. The information in the institution column is according to www.kva.se, the official website of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. This information may not necessarily reflect the recipient's current institution.

^ D. The citation for each award is quoted (not always in full) www.kva.se, the official website of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The links in this column are to articles (or sections of articles) on the history and areas of physics for which the awards were presented. The links are intended only as a guide and explanation. For a full account of the work done by each prize winner, please see the biography articles linked from the name column.

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