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2024 Nobel Prizes
It was 2024 NOBEL PRIZE week and those honoured were:
- For PHYSICS John J. Hopfield (Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA) and Geoffrey E. Hinton (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada);
"for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks",
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/summary/; - For CHEMISTRY David Baker (University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA),
Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind, London, United Kingdom) and John M. Jumper (Google DeepMind, London, United Kingdom)
“for computational protein design”,
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2024/summary/; - For PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE Victor Ambros (UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA)
and Gary Ruvkun (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA)
“for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation”,
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2024/summary/.
Congratulations to the new Nobel Laureates!
8th October, 2024.
2025 Varian Young Investigator Award
The Varian Young Investigator Award is intended to recognise a promising scientist within the first 4 years of their first independent faculty appointment and not exceeding 10 years after receipt of their Ph.D. The recipient will receive a prize of
$5,000 and provide a 20 minute talk. For further information, see:
https://enc-conference.org/Varian-Young-Investigator-Award/.
The nomination should include:
- Name of nominee, with nominee's affiliation, phone and e-mail
- CV of the nominee
- Name of nominator, address, phone, and e-mail address
- A brief (no more than 200 words) description of the work that forms the basis of the nomination
- A list of up to five relevant publications.
Please submit your nominations by January 1st, 2025 by e-mail to enc@enc-conference.org.
Many thanks in advance for your contributions.
2nd November, 2025.
2024 Professor H S Atreya Award
The nominations are invited for Prof. H S Atreya award-2024. 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 a cash prize of Rs. 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 Prof 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 31/12/2024. The previous winner(s) of the same award is not eligible. The eligible scientists are also encouraged to submit nominations for other NMRS awards. However, one nominee can receive only one award in a calendar year.
The awardee will be chosen by a committee that takes an integrated view of the 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 along with APNMR in June 2025. Previous awardees and the philosophy behind the award may be found at: https://nmrs.iisc.ac.in/award-hsa.htm.
The previous winners of other awards of NMRS (other than the H S Atreya Award) are also eligible to send the 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, through email at jagan1954@hotmail.com. The nominations are accepted until 17:00 hrs of 30/12/2024.
12th November, 2024.
