The SAS2024 Organizing Committee and the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) Commission on Small-Angle Scattering will award a prize of USD 5000 in honor of the great scientist and ‘father’ of small-angle scattering Professor André Guinier at SAS2024. The Guinier Prize is given for lifetime achievement, a major breakthrough, or an outstanding contribution to the field of small-angle scattering.
Nominations for the 2024 Guinier Prize are being solicited from the user community. A nomination should contain the following:
(i) justification for the nomination (max three pages),
(ii) a brief CV for the nominated person and
(iii) a list of major publications.
Letters of recommendation (one page each) may be submitted to support a nomination.
Nominations should be sent by e-mail from April 1 and before May 31, 2024, with the subject heading “Guinier Prize” to SAS2024 Chair, Prof. U-Ser Jeng <sas2024@nsrrc.org.tw> and Chair of the IUCr SAS Commission, Dr. Jan Ilavsky <ilavsky@aps.anl.gov>.
The award committee will comprise 5 members: 3 representatives from the SAS2024 Organizing/Program Committee and 2 from the IUCr SAS Commission.
The winner of the 2024 Guinier Prize will be announced at the opening session of SAS2024 and invited to present a plenary lecture at the SAS2024 conference in Taipei.
Previous recipients of the Guinier prize
- 2022 – Jill Trewhella (U. Sydney, Australia)
- 2018 – Dmitri J. Svergun (EMBL, Germany)
- 2015 – Sow-Hsin Chen (MIT, USA)
- 2012 – Otto Glatter (University of Graz, Austria)
- 2009 – Vittorio Luzzati (Centre de Génétique Moléculaire, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
- 2006 – Heinrich B. Stuhrmann (GKSS Forschungszentrum Geesthacht, Germany)
- 2002 – Michael Agamalian (ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, USA)