The Günther Laukien Prize is a prize presented at the Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference "to recognize recent cutting-edge experimental
NMR
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a physical phenomenon in which atomic nucleus, nuclei in a strong constant magnetic field are disturbed by a weak oscillating magnetic field (in the near and far field, near field) and respond by producing ...
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 comp ...
, the company founded by Laukien.
The recipients of the Günther Laukien Prize have been:
* 2023
Lyndon Emsley and
Anne Lesage
* 2022 Michael Garwood
* 2021
Gareth Morris
* 2020
Simon Duckett,
Konstantin Ivanov, and
Warren S. Warren
Warren Sloan Warren is the James B. Duke Professor of Chemistry and director of the Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Imaging at Duke University. He is also a professor of physics, Radiology, and Biomedical Engineering at the same institution. ...
* 2019
Geoffrey Bodenhausen, 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,
Mei Hong, Ann McDermott, Beat H. Meier,
Hartmut Oschkinat, and
Robert Tycko
* 2013
Clare Grey
* 2012 Klaes Golman and Jan Henrik Ardenkjaer-Larsen
* 2011 Daniel Rugar, John Mamin, and John Sidles
* 2010
Paul Callaghan
* 2009 Daniel Weitekamp
* 2008
Malcolm Levitt
* 2007
Robert G. Griffin
* 2006 Thomas Szyperski, Eriks Kupce,
Ray Freeman, and
Rafael Bruschweiler
* 2005 Stephan Grzesiek
* 2004
Lewis E. Kay
* 2003 Jacob Schaefer
* 2002
Ad Bax, Aksel Bothner-By and James Prestegard
* 2001
Peter Boesiger, Klaas Prüßmann and Markus Weiger
* 2000
Lucio Frydman
* 1999 Konstantin Pervushin, Roland Riek, Gerhard Wider, and
Kurt Wuthrich
See also
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List of physics awards
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References
External links
European Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference
Physics awards
American science and technology awards
Nuclear magnetic resonance
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