# Prix Gregori-Aminoff

Le prix Gregori-Aminoff est un prix international créé en 1979 et délivré par l'Académie royale des sciences de Suède dans le domaine de la cristallographie. Il récompense « une contribution documentée et individuelle dans le domaine de la cristallographie, comprenant les domaines de la dynamique de cristallisation et de dissolution des structures cristallines. On privilégiera les travaux montrant une certaine élégance dans l'approche du problème. »

## Historique

Gregori Aminoff (1883-1947) était un artiste et un scientifique suédois, devenu professeur de minéralogie au Muséum suédois d'histoire naturelle en 1923. Le prix fut créé à la demande de sa veuve, Birgit Broomé-Aminoff. Il peut être partagé entre plusieurs lauréats.

## Lauréats

| Year | Name | Citation |
| 1979 | Paul Peter Ewald (États-Unis) | « pour ses contributions fondamentales au développement de la science de cristallographie. » |
| 1980 | (Prix non attribué) | |
| 1981 | Charles Frank (Royaume-Uni) | « pour ses contributions fondamentales au développement de la science de cristallographie. » |
| 1982 | Gunnar Hägg (Suède) | "For his pioneering application of x-ray crystallography in inorganic chemistry." |
| 1983 | J. M. Robertson (Royaume-Uni) | "For your fundamental contributions to the development of the science of crystallography." |
| 1984 | David Harker (États-Unis) | "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 éminents en cristallographie théorique et expérimentale, en particulier concernant les structures magnétiques." |
| 1987 | Otto Kratky (Autriche) | "Für die Entwicklung der Kleinwinkelmethode bei Röntgen Studien der Struktur von Makromolekülen." |
| 1988 | Isabella L. Karle (États-Unis) | "For her eminent crystallographic investigations of complicated natural products." |
| 1989 | Arne Magnéli (Suède) | "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 (Suisse) | "For your eminent way of using structure analysis as a tool for studying different chemical problems." |
| 1991 | David Phillips (Royaume-Uni) | "For his fundamental results on the catalytic mechanism of enzymes." |
| 1992 | Michael M. Woolfson (Royaume-Uni) | "For your development of direct methods for statistical phase determination of chrystal structures." |
| 1993 | Clifford G. Shull (États-Unis) | "For your development and application of neutron diffraction methods for studies of atomic and magnetic structures of solids." |
| 1994 | Michael G. Rossmann (États-Unis) | "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 (Pays-Bas) | "In recognition of his development of profile refinement methods for the analysis of powder diffraction data." |
| 1996 | Philip Coppens (États-Unis) | "In recognition of your outstanding methodological and structure chemical achievements in Crystallography, especially the studies of electrone distribution in different types of chemical bonds." |
| 1997 | Wayne A. Hendrickson (États-Unis) | "For your contributions to phase angle determination of macromolecular crystals using anomalous dispersion and measurements at multiple wavelengths." |
| 1998 | Pietro Marten De Wolff (Pays-Bas), Aloysio Janner (Pays-Bas), Ted Janssen (Pays-Bas) | All: "For your contributions to the theory and practise of modulated structure refinements." |
| 1999 | Richard Henderson (Royaume-Uni), Nigel Unwin (Royaume-Uni) | Both: "For your development of methods for structure determination of biological macromolecules using electron diffraction." |
| 2000 | Dan Shechtman (Israël) | "For your discovery of quasicrystals." |
| 2001 | Kenneth Holmes (Royaume-Uni) | "For his pioneering development of methods to study biological macromolecules, in particular muscle proteins, by synchroton radiation." |
| 2002 | Leslie Leiserowitz (Israël), Meir Lahav (Israël) | 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 (États-Unis), T. Alwyn Jones (Suède) | 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) | |
| 2005 | Ho-Kwang Mao (États-Unis) | "for his pioneering research of solid materials at ultrahigh pressures and temperatures" |
| 2006 | Stephen Harrison, Harvard University et David Ian 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 et Gérard Bricogne | "for his developments on the division of structure chemical" |
| 2010 | So Iwata | "for his seminal crystallographic studies of membrane proteins. Using state-of-the-art crystallographic methods, he has elucidated vital biological functions within the fields of cellular respiration, photosynthesis and molecular transport" |
| 2011 | Lia Addadi | "for their crystallographic studies of biomineralization processes, which have led to an understanding of mechanisms of mineral formation" |
| 2011 | Stephen Weiner | "for their crystallographic studies of biomineralization processes, which have led to an understanding of mechanisms of mineral formation" |
| 2012 | Marat Yusupov | "for their crystallographic studies on ribosomes, translators of the code of life" |
| 2012 | Gulnara Yusupova | "for their crystallographic studies on ribosomes, translators of the code of life" |
| 2012 | Harry F. Noller | "for their crystallographic studies on ribosomes, translators of the code of life" |
| 2013 | Carlo Gatti | "for developing experimental and theoretical methods to study electron density in crystals, and using them to determine molecular and crystalline properties" |
| 2013 | Mark Spackman | "for developing experimental and theoretical methods to study electron density in crystals, and using them to determine molecular and crystalline properties" |
| 2014 | Yigong Shi | "for his groundbreaking crystallographic studies of proteins and protein complexes that regulate programmed cell death" |
| 2015 | Ian Robinson | "for his development of diffraction methods for studying surfaces and nanomaterials" |
| 2016 | Poul Nissen | "for their fundamental contributions to understanding the structural basis for ATP-driven translocation of ions across membranes" |
| 2016 | Chikashi Toyoshima | "for their fundamental contributions to understanding the structural basis for ATP-driven translocation of ions across membranes" |
| 2017 | Natalia Dubrovinskala | "for their development of new methodology for in-situ experimental determination of crystal structures under extreme conditions of high temperature and pressure" |
| 2017 | Leonid Dubrovinsky | "for their development of new methodology for in-situ experimental determination of crystal structures under extreme conditions of high temperature and pressure" |
| 2018 | Piet Gros | "for his fundamental contributions to understanding the structural basis for the complement system-mediated innate immune response" |
| 2019 | Michael O'Keeffe | "for their fundamental contributions to the development of reticular chemistry |
| 2019 | Omar M. Yaghi | "for their fundamental contributions to the development of reticular chemistry |
| 2020 | Jian-Ren Shen | “for their fundamental contributions to the understanding of biological redox metal clusters” |
| 2020 | Douglas Rees | “for their fundamental contributions to the understanding of biological redox metal clusters” |
| 2021 | Henry Champan | “for their fundamental contributions to the development of X-ray free electron laser based structural biology” |
| 2021 | Janos Hajdu | “for their fundamental contributions to the development of X-ray free electron laser based structural biology” |
| 2021 | John Spence | “for their fundamental contributions to the development of X-ray free electron laser based structural biology” |
| 2022 | Elena Conti | “for structural studies of synthesis and regulated degradation of RNA” |
| 2022 | Patrick Cramer | “for structural studies of synthesis and regulated degradation of RNA” |
| 2022 | Seth Darst | “for structural studies of synthesis and regulated degradation of RNA” |
| 2023 | Olga Kennard | "for pioneering work to establish molecular structure databases" |
| 2024 | Hao Wu | "for her discoveries by crystallography of the assembly mechanisms of large oligomeric signaling complexes in innate immunity, a paradigm-shifting concept in signal transduction" |