A History of ACA Award Winners

ACA is very pleased to honor the following scientists for outstanding work in their fields.

B. Warren Award Past Winners

• 2009 Shih-Lin Chang
  Coherent Dynamical Interaction in X-ray Multiple Diffraction and Crystal Cavity Resonance

• 2006  Charles Majkrzak
  Investigating the Structures of Thin Films and Multilayered Materials by Neutron Reflectometry
  
  
• 2003 Takeshi Egami
  Democracy in the Imperfect World: Local Crystallography of Crystals with Disorde
  
  
• 2000  Ian Robinson
  Crystal Truncation Rods, Ancient and Modern
  
  
• 1997  David Long Price
  Order and Disorder in Condensed Matter
  
  
• 1994  Michael Bedzyk
  X-Ray Standing Waves at a Reflecting Mirror Surface
  
  
• 1991  James Jorgensen
  Structural Properties as a Probe of the Physics of Oxide Superconductors
  
  
• 1988  Robert J. Birgeneau and Paul M. Horn
  Two-Dimensional Phases and Phase Transitions by Diffraction Methods
  
  
• 1985  Bennett C. Larson
  X-Ray Studies using Pulsed-lasar Irradiation
  
  
• 1982  Benjamin Post
  Direct Measurement of Phases of Diffracted Radiation
  
  
• 1979  F.W. Lytle, D.E. Sayers and E.A. Stern
  Theory and Application of Fine Structure at Absorption Edge Effects
  
  
• 1976  John M. Cowley and S. Iijima
  High Resolution Electron Microscopy of Crystal Structures
  
  
• 1973  J.D. Axe and G. Shirane
  Lattice and Molecular Dynamics as Studied by Inelastic Scattering of Neutrons
  
  
• 1970  U. Bonse and M. Hart
  X-Ray Interferometer and its Application to the Study of the Physics of Solids

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M. Buerger Award Past Winners

• 2009 Michael James
  From Sillimanite to Structural Biology or Minerals to Macromolecules
  
  
• 2006  Helen M. Berman
  A Personal Journey through Structure Space
  
  
• 2003  Jim Ibers
  Less Difficult But Still Not Easy
  
  
• 2000  Lyle Jensen
  Then and Now – Reflections of a Mature Discipline
  
  
• 1997  Carroll K. Johnson
  Thermal Ellipsoid Analysis
  
  
• 1994  Philip Coppens
  The New Synchrotron Radiation Crystsallography
  
  
• 1991  Jack D. Dunitz
  Chemical Aspects of Phase Transitions in Molecular Crystals
  
  
• 1988  George A. Jeffrey
  X-Ray and Neutron Diffraction of Carbohydrates and Clathrates
  
  
• 1985  William P. Busing
  Theory and Practice of Accurate Data Collection and Analysis

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• 2007  Frank H. Herbstein
  What Can We Learn From the Multiple Crystal Structures Reported for Pentacene, and for the Anthracene and Tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ) Molecules in Their Various Guises?
  
  
• 2004  Alexander McPherson
  Where are we Going? Where Have we Been?
  
  
• 2001  James Stewart
  Response to Fankuchen Award 2001
  
  
• 1998  E. Dodson
  Interdependence within Macromolecular Crystallography
  
  
• 1995  Jenny Glusker
  Metal Ions in Proteins
  
  
• Kenneth Trueblood
  On Crystallographic Education and on Internal Motion of Molecules in Crystals
  
  
• 1992  Donald L D Caspar
  Protein Adaptability:  Quasi-Equivalence, Plasticity and Switching
  
  
• 1989  David Sayre
  On the Possibility of Structure Determination of Specimens Consisting of One Large (1012) Dalton) Asymmetric Unit
  
  
• 1986  Michael S. Rossmann
  Virus Structure Determination and Correlation with Function
  
  
• 1983  Lyle H. Jensen
  Accurate Refinement and Analysis of Protein Structures
  
  
• 1980  David Harker
  Heavy Atom and Direct Methods of Structure Determination, Boron and Protein Structure
  
  
• 1977  Dorothy Hodgkin
  Crystallographic Studies of Hormones, Antibiotics, and Proteins
  
  
• 1974  A. Guinier
  Fundamental Development and Teaching of the Theory and Applications of X-Ray Diffraction
  
  
• 1971  Martin J. Buerger
  Crystal Structure Aspects of Phase Transformations

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• 2008 B.C. Wang
  Resolution of Phase Ambiguity in Macromolecular Crystallography: 25 Years Later
  
  
• 2005  Alwyn Jones
  From Inter to O
  
  
• 2002  Douglas Dorset
  Correlations, Convolutions and the Validity of Electron Crystallography
  
  
• 1999  Gerard Bricogne
  Intensities, Phases and Structures:  The Role of Mathematics in Crystallography
  
  
• 1997  Christer E. Nordman
  Travels in Patterson Space  
  
  
• 1993  George Sheldrick
  Direct Attempts to Solve Protein Structures
   
• 1990  Michael M. Woolfson
  Direct Methods and Macromolecular Structures  

• 1987  David and Lieselotte Templeton
  Theory, Measurement, and Use of Anomalous Scattering  
  
  
• 1984  Jerome Karle and Herbert Hauptman
  Direct Methods of Crystal Structure Determination
   
• 1981  Wayne A. Hendrickson
  Use of Anomalous Dispersion Effects in Phasing Protein Diffraction Data

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K. Trueblood Award Past Winners

• 2007  Angelo Gavezzotti
  Forty Years of Struggle With Computers Over Crystallography and Intermolecular Interactions
  
  
• 2004  Richard E. Marsh
  X-ray Diffraction through the Years: From One Structure per Year to One Structure Per Hour

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Margaret C. Etter Early Career Award Past Winners

• 2009 Svilen Bobev
  From Sillimanite to Structural Biology or Minerals to Macromolecules
  
  
• 2008 Radu Custelcean
  Manipulating Hydrogen Bonds in Crystalline Solids: From Etter’s Rules to Anion Recognition
  
  
• 2007  Cora Lind
  Negative Thermal Expansion Materials: X-ray and Neutron Diffraction Adventures under Non-ambient Conditions
  
  
• 2006  Carrie Wilmot
  X-rays, Action, Camera! The Joys and Heartaches of Making Movies of Redox Enzymes in Motion

• 2005  Jennifer A. Swift
  Growth and Dissolution of Cholesterol Crystals
  
  
• 2004  Leonard MacGillivray
  Linear templates: Tools for Constructing Molecules in the Solid State


• 2003  Julia Chan
  Structure-Property Relationships of Superconducting and Heavy Fermion Intermettalics

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Margaret C. Etter Student Lecturer Award Past Winners

• 2009 Alaji Bah, (06.20.03), Jinsheng Wen, (06.18.03), Catherine Tupper, (06.04.02), Matt Beekman, (06.15.04), Partha P. Das, (06.08.04), Peter Gin, (04.01.04), Jesse Smith, (06.10.07), Ivan Campeotto, (SP.02.04)

• 2008 Alexey Amunts (01.03.05), Olga Antipova (02.01.06), Matthew Hudson (06.01.06), Karen Mulfort (13.08.06), Clare Yannette (13.10.06), Sterling Cornaby (13.14.03), Xuerong Liu (13.15.05), Daniel Mitchell (13.15.06), Aruna Shankaranarayanan (AW.01.05)

• 2007  Tali Lavy (AW.03.09), Da Jia (01.01.08), Ryan McAndrew (01.04.05), Amy Gindhart (05.01.05), Jae-Hyuk Her (07.01.11), Greg A. Hogan (10.03.11), Jan Lipfert (13.03.03)

• 2006  Simon Jenni (01.03.04), Sayon Kumalah (13.12.06), Peng Wang (13.11.05), Katherine Page (13.13.06), Ryan Justice (T-P001 session 09.03), Yulia Sevryugina (13.02.04), Jean Jankoncic (11.01.05)

• 2005  Rumana Rashid (01.07.06), Sohela Vaezeslami (04.03.11), Dugald MacDougall (06.01.08), Elinor Spencer (08.03.07), Yuan Lin (01.04.07), Tamara Hamilton (AW.02.03)

• 2004  Lincoln Bickford (01.07.01), Carla Ferragina (06.02.01), Zhanhui Yuan (10.01.10), Mehmet Aslantas (08.01.01)

• 2003  Monica Allain (08.02.03), Firas Awwadi (09.02.05), Peter Chupas (04.01.03), David Lodowski (01.04.05), Jennifer Padilla (03.04.05)

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  C.E. Supper Instrumentation Award Past Winners

• 2004  Nguyen-Huu Xuong
  Advanced Area Detectors for Protein Crystallography and Electron Microscopy

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E.A. Wood Science Writing Award Past Winners

• 2007  Lisa Randall

• 2004  Oliver Sacks

• 2002  Ira Flatow

• 2001  K.C. Cole

• 1999  Robert Weinberg

• 1998  Robert M. Hazen

• 1997  Roald Hoffmann

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