| Year |
Name |
Citation |
| 1979 |
Paul Peter Ewald (United States) |
"For his fundamental contributions to the development of the science of crystallography." |
| 1980 |
(No prize awarded) |
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| 1981 |
Charles Frank (United Kingdom) |
"For your fundamental contributions to the development of the science of crystallography." |
| 1982 |
Gunnar Hägg (Sweden) |
"For his pioneering application of x-ray crystallography in inorganic chemistry." |
| 1983 |
J. M. Robertson (United Kingdom) |
"For your fundamental contributions to the development of the science of crystallography." |
| 1984 |
David Harker (United States) |
"For your fundamental contributions to the development of methods in X-ray crystallography." |
| 1985 |
André Guinier (France) |
"For your fundamental experimental and theoretical studies of the dispersion of X-rays with application to the study of structures of condensed systems." |
| 1986 |
Erwin Félix Bertaut (France) |
"Pour vos ouvrages eminents en cristallographie théorique et expérimentale, en particulier concernant les structures magnétiques." |
| 1987 |
Otto Kratky (Austria) |
"Für die Entwicklung der Kleinwinkelmethode bei Röntgen Studien der Struktur von Makromolekülen." |
| 1988 |
Isabella L. Karle (United States) |
"For her eminent crystallographic investigations of complicated natural products." |
| 1989 |
Arne Magnéli (Sweden) |
"For his epoch-making crystallographic studies of the building principles oxide compounds, which decisively have changed the view of the relations between stoichiometry and structure in inorganic chemistry." |
| 1990 |
Jack Dunitz (Switzerland) |
"For your eminent way of using structure analysis as a tool for studying different chemical problems." |
| 1991 |
David Phillips (United Kingdom) |
"For his fundamental results on the catalytic mechanism of enzymes." |
| 1992 |
Michael M. Woolfson (United Kingdom) |
"For your development of direct methods for statistical phase determination of chrystal structures." |
| 1993 |
Clifford G. Shull (United States) |
"For your development and application of neutron diffraction methods for studies of atomic and magnetic structures of solids." |
| 1994 |
Michael G. Rossmann (United States) |
"For your fundamental methodological work on the utilization of non-crystallographic symmetry, with its especially important applications within protein and virus crystallography." |
| 1995 |
Hugo M. Rietveld (Netherlands) |
"In recognition of his development of profile refinement methods for the analysis of powder diffraction data." |
| 1996 |
Philip Coppens (United States) |
"In recognition of your outstanding methodological and structure chemical achievements in Crystallography, especially the studies of electron distribution in different types of chemical bonds." |
| 1997 |
Wayne A. Hendrickson (United States) |
"For your contributions to phase angle determination of macromolecular crystals using anomalous dispersion and measurements at multiple wavelengths." |
| 1998 |
Pietro Marten De Wolff (Netherlands), Aloysio Janner (Netherlands), Ted Janssen (Netherlands) |
All: "For your contributions to the theory and practise of modulated structure refinements." |
| 1999 |
Richard Henderson (United Kingdom) , Nigel Unwin (United Kingdom) |
Both: "For your development of methods for structure determination of biological macromolecules using electron diffraction." |
| 2000 |
Dan Shechtman (Israel) |
"For your discovery of quasicrystals." |
| 2001 |
Kenneth C. Holmes (Germany) |
"For his pioneering development of methods to study biological macromolecules, in particular muscle proteins, by synchroton radiation." |
| 2002 |
Leslie Leiserowitz (Israel), Meir Lahav (Israel) |
Both: "for your fundamental studies of crystal growth and application to separation of enantiomers and for your studies of surface structures by synchrotron radiation" |
| 2003 |
Axel Brunger (United States), T. Alwyn Jones (Sweden) |
Brünger: "for his development of refinement techniques for macromolecules". Jones: "for his pioneering development of methods to interpret electron density maps and to build models of biological macromolecules with the aid of computer graphics" |
| 2004 |
(No prize awarded) |
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| 2005 |
Ho-Kwang Mao (United States) |
"for his pioneering research of solid materials at ultrahigh pressures and temperatures" |
| 2006 |
Stephen Harrison, Harvard University and David Stuart, Oxford University |
"for their remarkable contributions in virus crystallography" |
| 2007 |
Sumio Iijima |
"for his structural studies of carbon nanotubes" |
| 2008 |
Hans Eklund |
"for his crystallographic studies of ribonucleotide reductase" |
| 2009 |
George M. Sheldrick and Gérard Bricogne |
"for his developments on the division of structure chemical" |
