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Richard R. Ernst Prize in Magnetic Resonance

The EUROMAR Board of Trustees and Ernst Prize committee request nominations for the “Richard R. Ernst Prize in Magnetic Resonance” (Ernst Prize), named after magnetic resonance pioneer and Nobel Laureate Prof. Richard R. Ernst, which will be awarded at the EUROMAR 2022 in Utrecht (The Netherlands) 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), and Clare Grey (2020)), Lucio Frydman and Jan-Henrik Ardenkjaer-Larsen (2021).

The Prize comes with a purse of 10,000 €; it is sponsored by the Bruker BioSpin Corporation, and is awarded annually at the EUROMAR conference.

The 2022 Ernst Prize committee is made by Profs. Lucio Frydman (chair), Daniella Goldfarb, Angela Gronenborn, Clare Grey, Jan-Henrik Ardenkjaer-Larsen, Janez Plavec, Marc Baldus and John Parkinson.

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 or the Russell Varian Prize in the preceding five years; Self-nominations are not accepted.

Nominations for the 2022 Ernst Prize will be considered until 15th March, 2022 and should be sent to Lucio Frydman, the Chair of the Ernst Prize Committee.

https://euromar2022.org

2021 Nobel Prizes

It was 2020 NOBEL PRIZE week and those honoured were:

• For PHYSICS Syukuro Manabe (Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA), Klaus Hasselmann (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany) and Giorgio Parisi (Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy) "for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex systems" with one half jointly to Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann "for the physical modelling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming" and the other half to Giorgio Parisi "for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales." https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2021/summary/;
• For CHEMISTRY Benjamin List (Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany) and David W.C. MacMillan (Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA) for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis, https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2021/summary/;
• For PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE David Julius (University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA) and Ardem Patapoutian (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA, USA) for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch, https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2021/summary/
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Congratulations to the new Nobel Laureates!

7th October, 2021.