Salt Lake City in the winter. Awards and Poster Prizes
2007 Trueblood Award to Angelo Gavezzotti
Angelo Gavezzotti is one of the foremost chemical crystallographers in the world. Over a period of more than thirty years he has deeply influenced the way we think about molecular packing in crystals. He is the author of the UNI force field (with G. Filippini), of several crystallographic computer programs, such as OPEC (Organic Packing Energy Calculations), Zip-Promet (a program for the generation of possible crystal structures) and, most recently, the Semiclassical Density Sum Method (Pixel Method) for estimating intermolecular energies, all highly innovative, widely used and successful. He is an outstanding candidate for the ACA Kenneth N. Trueblood Award, which is to recognize exceptional achievement in computational or chemical crystallography.
Award Committee: Philip Coppens (Chair), Larry Dahl, Doug Rees, and Jim Richardson
2007 Fankuchen Award to Frank Herbstein
Frank Herbstein’s work has illuminated chemical crystallographic perceptions for over half a century and has now culminated in the recent publication of his two-volume encyclopedic work on Crystalline Molecular Complexes and Compounds. For the emerging generation of crystallographers this achievement should set an example of true scholarship combined with critical (and self-critical) attitudes towards a vast and complex body of information. Herbstein’s book will be a guide to the perplexed for many years. His lifetime achievements in research, teaching and scholarship eminently qualify him as a most suitable candidate for the 2007 Fankuchen Memorial Award.
Award Committee: Tom Koetzle (Chair), Lachlan Cranswick, Kathy Kantardijeff, Bob Sweet
2007 Wood Award to Lisa Randall
Lisa Randall, Professor of Theoretical Physics at Harvard University, will receive the Elizabeth A. Wood Award at the 2007 ACA Meeting in Salt Lake City next July. The award was established in 1997 to honor the late Betty Wood, (For her obituary and remembrances of Betty see the Spring 2006 ACA RefleXions, p 19 and the the article that follows this). Betty was the author of Crystals and Light, and Science From Your Airplane Window.The Wood Award is given to those who excel in bringing science to the attention of a wider audience.
Lisa’s book Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions, (HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 2005), has received high praise from critics. Tim Folger, editor of Best American Science and Nature Writing, says that Warped Passages “gives an engaging and remarkably clear account of how the existence of dimensions beyond the familiar three (or four, if you include time) may resolve a host of cosmic quandaries. The discovery of extra dimensions - and Randall believes there’s at least a fair chance that evidence for them might be found within the next few years - would utterly transform our view of the universe.”
Lisa was the first tenured woman in the Princeton physics department and the first tenured woman theoretical physicist at MIT and Harvard. She is the winner of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award. In 2006, she received the Klopsted Award from the American Society of Physics Teachers and she was featured in Newsweek’s “Who’s Next in 2006” issue. Her research at Harvard concerns the fundamental nature of particles and forces and the relationships among matter’s most basic elements. She has worked on a wide variety of models and theories, the most recent of which involve extra dimensions of space. She has also worked on supersymmetry, Standard Model observables, cosmological inflation, baryogenesis, grand unified theories, and aspects of string theory. She has made seminal contributions in all these areas and in autumn, 2004, she was the most cited theoretical physicist of the previous five years.
2007 Margaret Etter Early Career Award to Cora Lind
The Etter Early Career Award recognizes the outstanding achievement and exceptional potential in crystallographic research demonstrated by a scientist at an early stage of their independent career. Cora Lind, Univ. of Toledo, has been selected to receive the 2007 award. “Dr. Cora Lind has established herself as a superior scientist and as an established crystallographer. She has taught the graduate level crystallography course for three years and proven to be a very effective and respected instructor. Her analysis of NTE materials using powder diffraction received high honors at the annual ACA meeting in 2006 with her students receive a first and a second prizes. Her research is supported by NSF CAREER and NSF CRIF awards.”
The award, established in 2002, is given annually to honor the memory of Professor Margaret C. Etter (1943-1992). She was a major contributor to the field of organic solid-state chemistry. Her work emphasized the use of hydrogen bonds and co-crystals. She was a great mentor to students and an inspiration to colleagues. The YSSIG and General Interest Group are teaming up to highlight up-and-coming crystallographers in this half-day session. Contributions from students and post-docs that encompass all areas of crystallography are invited.
POSTER PRIZES
· Pauling Prize, IUCr Prize, Canadian Pauling Prize. Graduate and undergraduate students only - no post-docs. Awarded to the best student poster presentations. The Canadian Pauling Prize is sponsored by the Canadian Division of the ACA and the Canadian National Committee, will be given to the highest ranked poster from a Canadian laboratory. Each award consists of $200, a complimentary banquet ticket, and a copy of Linus Pauling’s “General Chemistry”. IUCR Prize. The Executive Committee is pleased to continue the series of IUCr awards to be presented at meetings of the regional affiliates and national crystallographic associations. The Award is complimentary online access to all IUCr journals for one year or a complimentary volume of International Tables or another IUCr publication. Winners will be announced at the banquet on Wednesday, July 25. Please indicate your wish to be considered with your abstract submission.
· Protein Data Bank Prize. The PDB Poster Prize is to recognize a student poster presentation involving macromolecular crystallography. The prize is open to graduate and undergraduate students only - no postdoctoral posters. The winner will be announced at the banquet and an announcement will appear on the PDB web site and in the PDB Newsletter. Please indicate your wish to be considered with your abstract submission.
· AIP Undergraduate Research Prize. The Undergraduate Research Poster Prize and Undergraduate Research Presentation Prize, both sponsored by the American Institute of Physics through the Society of Physics Students, will be presented to undergraduate students at the ACA banquet. The winners will each receive $200 and a banquet ticket. Posters and oral presentations will be judged by a committee, during the time the student is presenting his/her research. Presentations and posters will be judged on organization and clarity, presentation, and report of the research. To be eligible for these awards, the poster or oral presentation must describe research with a significant crystallographic component, students must demonstrate a command of the science, and students must have completed the majority of the work being presented. Please indicate your wish to be considered for either of these awards with your abstract submission.
· Oxford Cryosystems Prize. The Oxford Cryosystems Low Temperature Prize is awarded to any poster describing work in low temperature crystallography. The winner will receive a prize of two hundred and fifty pounds sterling donated by Oxford Cryosystems. Winners will be announced at the banquet on Wednesday, July 25. Please indicate your wish to be considered with your abstract submission.
· The Journal of Chemical Crystallography Prize. The Journal of Chemical Crystallography proudly sponsors a prize to be awarded to the best student poster presentation in the area of chemical crystallography or small molecule structure determination and analysis. The winner will receive a one-year subscription to the Journal of Chemical Crystallography and a $200 Springer book voucher. Please indicate your wish to be considered with your abstract submission.