From: :  sklenar <sklenar@chemi.muni.cz>
Date:  Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:39:12 +0100
 

    The Russell Varian prize honors the memory of the pioneer behind the first commercial Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectrometers and co-founder of Varian Associates. The prize is awarded to a researcher based on a single innovative contribution (a single paper, patent, lecture or piece of hardware) that has proven of high and broad impact on state-of-the-art NMR technology. The prize aims to award the initial contribution that laid the ground for the specific technology of great importance in state-of-the-art NMR.  It is sponsored by Varian Inc. and carries a monetary award of 15,000 Euro. The award ceremony will take place at the first joint EENC/Ampere Meeting at Lille, France, September 6-11, 2004.
 

Rules for the Russell Varian Prize

• Only single pieces of work are considered (a paper, a lecture, a patent, etc).
• In case of multiple authorship, the prize is awarded to the author with the largest creative and innovative share of the contribution. Only in exceptional cases of truly equal shares can the prize be split between two authors of the same contribution.
• No individual can receive the prize more than once.
• Prize winners become members of the Advisory Board for the Russell Varian Prize that evaluates future nominations and makes recommendations to the Prize Committee.

Call for Nominations

    Nominations must be forwarded by email to the Secretary of the Prize Committee, Vladimir Sklenár, at sklenar@chemi.muni.cz. The deadline for nominations is April 30, 2004. Nominations must be laid out in the following ordered format:

    1. A short description of the technology of great importance in state-of-the-art NMR.
    2. The reference of the initial contribution that laid the ground for the specific technology along with an outline of why it is this contribution.
    3. Name and current affiliation of the nominee. In case of multiple authorship, an outline of why the nominee is the most innovative author behind the paper.
 

Former Russell Varian Prize Laureate

Jean Jeener, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium (2002):
Technology: Multidimensional Fourier NMR spectroscopy and imaging.
Awarded contribution: The lecture given at the Ampere Summer School in Basko Polje, Yugoslavia, September, 1971, where Jean Jeener introduced two-dimensional Fourier NMR spectroscopy by what is today known as the COSY experiment.
 

Prize Committee 2004

Jean Jeener (Chairman), Vladimír Sklenár (Secretary),  Laima Baltusis, Christian Griesinger, and Ole W. Sørensen
 

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