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2025 Nobel Prizes
It was 2025 NOBEL PRIZE week and those honoured were:
- For PHYSICS John
Clarke (University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA), Michel H. Devoret (Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA) and John M. Martinis (University of California, Santa Barbara,
CA, USA; Qolab, Los Angeles, CA, USA);
"for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit",
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2025/summary/; - For CHEMISTRY Susumu Kitagawa (Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan), Richard Robson (University of Melbourne, Melbourne,
Australia) and Omar M. Yaghi (University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA)
“for the development of metal–organic frameworks”,
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2025/summary/; - For PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE Mary E. Brunkow (Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA, USA), Frederick J. Ramsdell
(Sonoma Biotherapeutics, San Francisco, CA, USA) and Shimon Sakaguchi (Osaka University, Osaka, Japan)
“for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance”,
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2025/summary/.
Congratulations to the new Nobel Laureates!
10th October, 2025.
Professor H S Atreya Award-2025
The nominations are invited for Prof. H S Atreya award-2025. The award shall be given annually to an outstanding scientist working in any diversified area of magnetic resonance and its applications, for his/her
scientific contributions, without any geographical restrictions. The award carries a citation and the cash prize of INR. 50,000/- (Rupees fifty thousand only or equivalent in foreign currency for international
awardees) earned by the interest generated out of the endowment fund created by the generous donation by the colleagues of late Professor Atreya at the erstwhile NMR Research Centre, IISc, Bangalore.
Any magnetic resonance spectroscopist can nominate a deserving scientist. Self-nominations are also accepted. The nominee must be holding an independent academic/scientist position and should not have
completed 45 years of age as of 31st December, 2025. The previous winner(s) of the same award is not eligible. The eligible scientists are also encouraged to submit nominations for other awards of NMRS. However,
one nominee can receive only one award in a calendar year.
The awardee will be chosen by a committee taking an integrated view of nominees’ significant scientific contributions mainly in the area of magnetic resonance and its applications. The decision of the committee
will be final. The winner will be invited to make a presentation at the next NMRS symposium to be held at IISER, Bhopal during July 2026. See https://nmrs.iisc.ac.in/.
The previous winners of other awards of NMRS (other than H S Atreya Award) are also eligible to send nominations.
The curriculum-vitae and a brief write-up of the contributions of the nominee, along with the supporting documents, may please be submitted as a single zip file to the:
President of NMRS: Prof. N. R. Jagannathan at: jagan1954@hotmail.com and nrjgj@yahoo.co.in.
Nominations are accepted until 17:00 hrs of 28th February, 2026.
N. R. Jagannathan, President, NMRS, India, 22nd January, 2026.
C.J. Gorter NMR-DG Award
The C.J. Gorter NMR-DG Award is funded by the Stichting Magnetische Resonantie “NMR-DG” and is given every two years for the best Ph.D. thesis in the area of magnetic resonance spectroscopy and/or magnetic resonance imaging of the preceding two years.
The purpose of the Award is to provide recognition to young scientists in The Netherlands who have performed thesis work of outstanding scientific quality. The Award consists of a certificate and a prize of €1500 in cash, at full disposal of the laureate
for enhancing her/his scientific career. The Award will be presented at the annual symposium of the Dutch NMR-DG, where the laureate is expected to present an acceptance lecture.
Candidates can be nominated by their PhD (co)promotor or supervisor, or can apply themselves for the Award by sending a short motivation letter with contact details of one or two persons that can be contacted for a reference, the candidate’s CV (including a publication list),
the thesis summary and a link to a downloadable digital version of the thesis to the NMR-DG (nmrdgnl@gmail.com). A letter of recommendation by the (co-)promotor or supervisor specifying the contribution of the candidate in the research is very helpful.
Eligible candidates need to have obtained their doctorate at a university in The Netherlands on a topic in the field of magnetic resonance in a broad sense. The thesis should have been defended in the two preceding years (May 1 2024 – May 1 2026).
The Award jury consists of representatives of the Stichting Magnetische Resonantie “NMR-DG” and the Netherlands NMR Discussion Group (who will act as the jury chairman and the jury secretary) and 3–4 additional members, from different magnetic resonance disciplines and appointed
by the board of the Dutch NMR-DG. The jury will make a shortlist of 5-10 nominees who will be invited to submit 5 hard copies of their thesis. The jury must reach a unanimous decision on the Award and motivate their choice in a laudation, to be presented at the annual symposium of
the Dutch NMR-DG. The travel costs of the laureate to participate and present his/her thesis research in this symposium can be reimbursed (maximum €500) by the Stichting Magnetische Resonantie “NMR-DG”.
Deadlines and expected time schedule for the Award 2026
May 6th: Submission motivation letter, CV, thesis summary, digital version of the thesis, and preferably a letter of recommendation by the (co-)promotor
June 16th: Preselection of 5-10 candidates by the jury, and contact with these Award nominees
July 1st: Submission of 5 hard copies of the thesis (shortlisted nominees only)
Oct 1st : Jury decision and informing of the Prize winner and other nominees
Mid October: Award ceremony at the annual Dutch NMR Discussion Group meeting.
On behalf of the Dutch NMR-DG, Rolf Boelens, Adriana Carvalho de Souza, John van Duynhoven, Hugo van Ingen, and Patrick van der Wel, 2nd March, 2026.
