The joint recipients of the 3rd Asada Award, which is presented in memory of the late Professor Ei-ichi Asada (1924-2005) to promising young scientists in X-ray analysis fields in Japan, are: Dr. Shuji Maeo (Osaka Electro Communication Univ., "Development of multi excitation type X-ray tube") and Dr. Hajime Tanida (Japan Synchrotron Radiation Institute, SPring-8, "Instrumentation on total-reflection XAFS for liquid-liquid interface studies"). The ceremony was held during the 44th Annual Conference on X-Ray Chemical Analysis, Japan, at Japan Women's University, Tokyo.
The Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) announced that Dr. Leroy Hood (Co-director of the Nano Systems Biology Cancer Center (NSBCC) and President of the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, Washington) received the seventh annual Pittcon Heritage Award. Jointly sponsored by the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon) and CHF, this award recognizes outstanding individuals whose entrepreneurial careers have shaped the instrumentation community, inspired achievement, promoted public understanding of the modern instrumentation sciences, and highlighted the role of analytical chemistry in world economies. Dr. Hood pioneered the techniques that made the rapid pace of the Human Genome Project possible.
The international union of crystallography (IUCr) announced that Professor D. Sayre (Department of Physics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA) has been awarded the eighth Ewald Prize for the unique breadth of his contributions to crystallography, which range from seminal contributions to the solving of the phase problem to the complex physics of imaging generic objects by X-ray diffraction and microscopy, and for never losing touch with the physical reality of the processes involved. The presentation of the Ewald Prize will be made during the Osaka Congress Opening Ceremony in August 2008. Former recipients of the Ewald Prize are P. Coppens (USA, 2005), Michael M. Woolfson (UK, 2002), G. N. Ramachandran (India, 1999), M. G. Rossmann (USA, 1996), N. Kato (Japan, 1993), B.K. Vainshtein (Russia, 1990), J.M. Cowley (USA) and A.F. Moodie (Australia) in 1987.
The recipient of the 2nd Asada Award, which is presented in memory of the late Professor Ei-ichi Asada (1924-2005) to promising young scientists in X-ray analysis fields in Japan, is: Dr. Hiromi Eba (one of previous members of our lab, present affiliation, Musashi Tech. Institute, "Site occupancy determination and magnetic evaluation of MnZn-ferrites using MnKb X-ray fluorescence spectra"). The ceremony was held in Kyoto, during the international conference on X-ray optics and microscopy (ICXOM 2007) and the 43rd Annual Conference on X-Ray Chemical Analysis, Japan.
The following awards were presented during the plenary session of the 56th Annual Denver X-Ray Conference:
1. The 2007 Barrett Award was presented to Sunil K. Sinha, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA
2. The 2007 Jenkins Award was presented to Ting C. Huang, Emeritus, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA
3. The 2007 Distinguished Fellow Award was presented to Ting C. Huang, Emeritus, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA
4. The 2007 Hanawalt Award was presented to Tamás Ungár, Eötvös University Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
5. There was no recipient for the 2007 Jerome B. Cohen Student Award.
The National Institute for Materials Science, Japan, has announced that the first NIMS Award for recent breakthroughs in materials science and technology has been presented to Professor William H. Butler (Center for Materials for Information Technology, University of Alabama, USA) for the theoretical prediction of giant tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR). Professor Butler performed the first principle calculation on tunnel conductance through MgO(001) single crystal thin film, and theoretically predicted the giant TMR effect of the Fe(100)/MgO/Fe(100) junction for the first time. A giant TMR effect beyond ~500 % has now been realized, which is expected to make a substantial contribution to the development of novel spintronics devices and the creation of a new interdisciplinary field.
The Advanced Photon Source (APS) and APS Users Organization (APSUO) announced that the 2005 Arthur H. Compton Award was presented to Gunter Schmahl and Janos Kirz for pioneering and developing the field of X-ray microscopy using Fresnel zone plates. Because of their leadership over the last 30 years, X-ray microscopy has evolved into a powerful method for the study of nanoscale structures and phenomena in many areas of science. Former recipients of the award are: Martin Blume, Doon Gibbs, Namikawa Kazumichi, Denis McWhan (2003); Wayne A. Hendrickson (2001); Sunil K. Sinha (2000); Donald H. Bilderback, Andreas K. Freund, Gordon S. Knapp, Dennis M. Mills (1998); Philip M. Platzman, Peter M. Eisenberger (1997); Nikolai Vinokurov, Klaus Halbach (1995).
The international union of crystallography (IUCr) announced that Professor P. Coppens (Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA) has been awarded the seventh Ewald Prize for his contributions to developing the fields of electron density determination and the crystallography of molecular excited states, and for his contributions to the education and inspiration of young crystallographers as an enthusiastic teacher by participating in and organizing many courses and workshops. The Prize consists of a medal, a certificate, and an award of USD 30,000. The former recipients are Michael M. Woolfson (UK, 2002), G.N. Ramachandran (1999), M. G. Rossmann (USA, 1996), N. Kato (Japan, 1993), B.K. Vainshtein (Russia, 1990), J.M. Cowley (USA) and A.F. Moodie (Australia) in 1987.
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