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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.
Raymond Andrew Prize 2026
In memory of Professor Dr. Raymond Andrew and to honour his pioneering work in the field of magnetic resonance, the Groupement AMPERE awards the Raymond Andrew Prize
for a recent PhD thesis.
The prize is given to young scientists for an outstanding PhD thesis in magnetic resonance.
For the Raymond Andrew Prize 2026 the AMPERE Prize Committee is seeking your help in searching for qualified candidates who completed their dissertation during the period of 2024/2025. The prize will be
presented during EUROMAR in Gothenburg, Sweden, 28th June - 2nd July, 2026. For more details see https://www.ampere-society.org/Awards.html.
You are kindly invited to submit nominations by e-mail to: andrewprize@ampere-society.org.
Nominations must be received by 15th February 2026, and should include the following documents:
- Nomination Letter
- Curriculum Vitae of the nominee;
- A list of publications and presentations at conferences, • The PhD Thesis as a PDF.
Matthias Ernst, Secretary General, Groupement AMPERE, Zürich, 8th December, 2025.
Call for nominations: 2026 Vaughan Lecturer at Rocky Mountain Conference SSNMR Symposium
Nominations for the 2026 Vaughan Lecturer are solicited from the Solid-state NMR community. The Awardee will be honored in a special symposium at the meeting, which will be held 2nd - 6th August, 2026 in Snowbird, Utah, USA. The deadline for nominations is 30th January, 2026. Each nomination should include the following:
- Name of nominee, the nominees affiliation, address, phone, and e-mail;
- Name of nominator, address, phone, and e-mail;
- A brief (no more than 300 words) description of the work(s) serving as the basis for the nomination.
The nomination letters should be sent to Jeff Reimer: reimer@berkeley.edu.
Rachel Martin and Pierre Florian, 14th January, 2026.
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.
