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The European Crystallographic Association (ECA) and the European Neutron Scattering Association (ENSA) announce the creation of a prize in honour of the late Erwin Felix Lewy Bertaut, in memory of his scientific achievements which are cornerstones in both crystallography and neutron scattering.
The prize is awarded to a young European scientist (up to 5-8 years after finishing the PhD-thesis) in recognition of notable experimental theoretical or methodological contributions in the field of investigation of matter using crystallographic or neutron scattering methods - see the guidelines available in PDF format.
ECA and ENSA will award that prize in a regular alternating sequence.
The European Crystallographic Association (ECA) and the European Neutron Scattering Association (ENSA) announce the call for nominations for the Third Erwin Felix Lewy Bertaut Prize in honour of the late Erwin Felix Lewy Bertaut, and in memory of his scientific achievements and cornerstones in crystallography and in neutron scattering.
The prize is awarded to a young European scientist, with a career extending to 5 to 8 years after thesis defence, in recognition of notable experimental, theoretical or methodological contributions in the field of analysis of matter using crystallographic or neutron scattering methods.
Nominations for the prize may be submitted by European scientists as individuals (self-nomination excluded) or on behalf of a group. Nominations should include the motivation for the award, a brief curriculum vitae of the nominee and a short list of major publications. Letters of support from authorities in the field are accepted. Nominations for the prize will be treated in confidence and although they will be acknowledged there will be no further communication. Nominations are to be addressed in electronic form to Andreas ROODT ( ) or Michael STEINER ( ).
The nominations for the prize will be examined by a Selection Committee. ECA and ENSA will agree on the composition of a Selection committee for the evaluation of the quality the candidates and the recipient of the prize. Membership in the Selection Committee is obtained by invitation extended jointly by ECA and ENSA executives, with a delegate of each executive representing the associations. The Selection Committee is chaired by the representative of the association that organizes the prize ceremony for a specific year. The prize ceremony is organized at European conferences organized by ECA or ENSA. The two associations will decide on an alternate timing of the venue of the prize ceremony and organize the call for nominations according to their respective schedules of conferences.
The call for nominations for the Third Erwin Felix Lewy Bertaut Prize is open until 30th April 2010. More details for the procedure and guidelines for application are available on the web-sites of ECA (http://www.ecanews.org/) and ENSA (http://neutron.neutron-eu.net/n_ensa/). It will be awarded at ECM26 (26th European Crystallographic Meeting in Darmstadt, Germany, 29th Aug -- 2nd Sept 2010.
The amount of the prize is 2000 euros. ECA and ENSA aim to equal contribution towards the financing of the prize through donations, sponsors etc. A dedicated fund has been established to maintain the prize on long term.
The prize committee set up by the two associations has decided unanimously to award the Lewy-Bertaut prize, second edition, to Dr. Lukáš Palatinus
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in the field of the analysis of matter using crystallographic methods have a considerable high quality and impact. He firstly contributed with great success in the application of Maximum Entropy Method to analysis of aperiodic crystallographic structures. Later he has transformed into a wide practical usage the idea of Oszlanyi and Sütö for determining periodic structures via the idea of charge flipping, and generalized this method to solution of aperiodic structures. Dr. Palatinus also participated on extending of the charge flipping method to structure solution from powder diffraction data. After many years of consolidated structure solution methods, the Superflip program of Dr. Palatinus may have an everyday impact over the entire community of crystallographers and its simple applicability may prove to be useful to a wider science.
The award ceremony will take place August 18th at the occasion of the 25th European Crystallographic Meeting in Istanbul, Turkey. The winner of the award will present an Acceptance Lecture within the ECM25 25th Anniversary Session.
The prize committee set up by the two associations has decided unanimously to award the first Lewy-Bertaut prize to Henrik M. Rønnow.
Henrik M. Rønnow has a
brilliant track record that illustrates a truly successful
career of a young European scientist. His work has concentrated
on experimental and theoretical aspects of quantum magnetism
(spin dynamics in the two-dimensional magnet CFTD, in copper
germanate as well as high Tc cuprates). He has also
been involved in development of neutron instrumentation as well
as simulation and data analysis software. Despite his yet early
career, he has contributed significantly to neutron scattering
science and he has become a renowned expert in the polarized
neutron scattering techniques. His major publications in the
highest ranking journals are frequently cited and brought up
considerable esteem among the peers.
After a thesis work at the University of Copenhagen, followed by a post-doctoral period with international mobility (Grenoble, France; Princeton&Chicago, USA) Henrik Rønnow spent some time at the Neutron Scattering Laboratory of ETH-Zürich and Paul Scherrer Institute, and has now settled at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) where he holds a tenure track professor position and continues to contribute to the progress of neutron scattering science in Europe.
The award ceremony will take place June 28th at the occasion of the European Conference on Neutron Scattering in Lund, Sweden. The winner of the award will give a presentation that will be preceded by a brief account on the life and scientific career of the late Erwin Felix Lewy-Bertaut, given by Prof. Hartmut Fuess, former chairman of the European Crystallographic Association and student of Lewy-Bertaut in the e60s.
