Call for Nominations for the 2027 Guinier Prize

The SAS2027 Organising Committee and the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) Commission on Small-Angle Scattering will award a prize of USD 5000 in honour of the great scientist and ‘father’ of small-angle scattering Professor André Guinier at SAS2027. 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 2027 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 January 11 and before March 15, 2027, with the subject heading “Guinier Prize” to SAS2027 Chair, Judith Houston <sas2027@ess.eu> and Chair of the IUCr SAS Commission, Dr. Elliot Gilbert <epg@ansto.gov.au>.

The award committee will comprise 5 members: 3 representatives from the SAS2027 Organizing/Program Committee and 2 from the IUCr SAS Commission.

The winner of the 2027 Guinier Prize will be announced at the opening session of SAS2027 and invited to present a plenary lecture at the SAS2027 conference in Lund.

Previous recipients of the Guinier prize

• • • 2024 - Takeji Hashimoto (Kyoto University, Japan)

    • 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)