The Günther Laukien Prize is a prize presented at the European Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference "to recognize recent cutting-edge experimental

NMR Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a physical phenomenon in which nuclei in a strong constant magnetic field are perturbed by a weak oscillating magnetic field (in the near field) and respond by producing an electromagnetic signal with ...

research with a high probability of enabling beneficial new applications". The prize was established in 1999 in memoriam to

Günther Laukien Günther Laukien (23 May 1923, in Eschringen (Saarland) – 29 April 1997, in Karlsruhe) was a German physicist and entrepreneur. He is known for his pioneering work in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and for his role in the Bruker company. ...

, who was a pioneer in NMR research. The prize money of $20,000 is financed by

Bruker Bruker Corporation is an American manufacturer of scientific instruments for molecular and materials research, as well as for industrial and applied analysis. It is headquartered in Billerica, Massachusetts, and is the publicly traded parent compa ...

, the company founded by Laukien. The recipients of the Günther Laukien Prize have been: * 2022 Michael Garwood * 2021

Gareth Morris Gareth Charles Walter Morris (13 May 192014 February 2007) was a British flautist. He was the principal flautist of a number of London orchestras including the Boyd Neel Orchestra before joining the Philharmonia Orchestra. He was the princip ...

* 2020 Simon Duckett, Konstantin Ivanov, and Warren S. Warren * 2019

Geoffrey Bodenhausen Geoffrey Bodenhausen (born 1951) is a French chemist specializing in nuclear magnetic resonance, being highly cited in his field. He is a Corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the American Phys ...

, and Christian Griesinger * 2018 Gerhard Wagner * 2017 Kurt Zilm and Bernd Reif * 2016 Robert S. Balaban and Peter van Zijl * 2015 Arthur Palmer III * 2014

Marc Baldus Marc Baldus is a physicist and professor of NMR spectroscopy at Utrecht University. He is especially known for his work in the field of structural biology using solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (ssNMR) spectroscopy. He applies ssNMR methods ...

, Mei Hong, Ann McDermott, Beat H. Meier, Hartmut Oschkinat, and Robert Tycko * 2013

Clare Grey Dame Clare Philomena Grey is Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Grey uses nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study and optimize ...

* 2012 Klaes Golman and Jan Henrik Ardenkjaer-Larsen * 2011 Daniel Rugar, John Mamin, and John Sidles * 2010

Paul Callaghan Sir Paul Terence Callaghan ( ; 19 August 1947 – 24 March 2012) was a New Zealand physicist who, as the founding director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology at Victoria University of Wellington, held t ...

* 2009 Daniel Weitekamp * 2008

Malcolm Levitt Malcolm Harris Levitt is a British physical chemist and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopist. He is Professor in Physical Chemistry at the University of Southampton and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007. Education and ...

* 2007 Robert G. Griffin * 2006 Thomas Szyperski, Eriks Kupce,

Ray Freeman Raymond Freeman FRS (6 January 1932 – 1 May 2022) was a British chemist and professor at Jesus College, Cambridge who made important contributions to NMR spectroscopy. Education Freeman was educated at Nottingham High School where he won an ...

, and Rafael Bruschweiler * 2005 Stephan Grzesiek * 2004 Lewis E. Kay * 2003 Jacob Schaefer * 2002

Ad Bax Adriaan "Ad" Bax (born 1956) is a Dutch-American molecular biophysicist. He was born in the Netherlands and is the Chief of the Section on Biophysical NMR Spectroscopy at the National Institutes of Health. He is known for his work on the methodolo ...

, Aksel Bothner-By and James Prestegard * 2001 Peter Boesiger, Klaas Prüßmann and Markus Weiger * 2000

Lucio Frydman Lucio Frydman (, born 1965) is an Israeli chemist whose research focuses on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and solid-state NMR. He was awarded the 2000 Günther Laukien Prize, the 2013 Russell Varian Prize and ...

* 1999 Konstantin Pervushin, Roland Riek, Gerhard Wider, and Kurt Wuthrich

References

External links

European Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference
Physics awards American science and technology awards Nuclear magnetic resonance {{sci-award-stub

See also

References

External links