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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.
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.
Richard R. Ernst Prize in Magnetic Resonance 2026
Nominations are invited for the “Richard R. Ernst Prize in Magnetic Resonance” (The Ernst Prize), named after magnetic resonance pioneer and Nobel Laureate Prof. Richard R. Ernst, which will be awarded at the EUROMAR 2026 in Gothenburg, Sweden, to recognize ‘recent beneficial applications of Magnetic Resonance’.
The Ernst Prize is intended to award achievements going beyond fundamental research, for groundbreaking applications of new or of previously known techniques in all areas of magnetic resonance. It is intended for research published within the last three years, although the origins of the ideas and experiments may have been described in previous publications. In special cases, and at the discretion of the Prize Committee, the award may be for cumulative achievements over a longer period of time.
The Ernst Prize is intended to be awarded to a single individual; however, it may be awarded to up to three scientists if the Prize Committee deems that their contributions to the development of the applications are of equal value.
Former prize recipients are Alex Pines (2016), Robert Griffin (2017), Claudio Luchinat (2018), Daniella Goldfarb and Angela Gronenborn (2019), Clare Grey (2020), Lucio Frydman and Jan-Henrik Ardenkjaer-Larsen (2021), Harald Schwalbe (2022), Jack Freed (2023), Lucia Banci (2023), Bernhard Blumich, Andrew Webb (2024) and Thomas Prisner (2025).
The Prize comes with a purse of 15,000 €; it is sponsored by the Bruker BioSpin Corporation, and is awarded annually at the EUROMAR conference.
The 2026 Ernst Prize committee is made by Profs. Lucio Frydman (chair), Lucia Banci, Andrew Webb, Thomas Prisner, Ville-VeikkoTelkki, Goran Karlsson and Guido Pintacuda.
Nominations must include and fulfill the following conditions: the nominee's name, affiliation, address, phone number, and e-mail; a brief (ca. 200 words) description of the work serving as the basis for the nomination, and a list of relevant publications (~5); Nominees may not have received the Guenther Laukien Prize in the preceding five years; Self-nominations are not accepted.
Nominations for the 2026 Ernst Prize will be considered until 15th April, 2026 and should be sent to Lucio Frydman lucio.frydman@weizmann.ac.il, the Chair of the Ernst Prize Committee.
Anne Lesage, Chair, EUROMAR Board of Trustees, Ludio Frydman, Chair, Richard R. Ernst Prize Committee, 13th March, 2026.
