1995 Röntgen Prize

Axel T. Brünger.

Professor Axel T. Brünger, from Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University, will be awarded the 1995 Röntgen Prize for Biosciences from the University of Würzburg. He will receive the  award for recognition of his work on molecular dynamics refinement in X-ray Crystallography.

The Röntgen Prize has been established to celebrate the lOOth anniversary of the discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen on November 8, 1895. Three awards - in Biosciences, Medicine, and Physics - will be awarded in Würzburg, where Röntgen made his discovery, at a ceremony on November 8, 1995, the anniversary of the discovery of X-rays. In 1901, Röntgen was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics for his seminal work. The Röntgen Prize will not be given again for another hundred years.

Axel T. Brünger received his Physics Diploma at the University of Hamburg in 1980, and his PhD degree at the Technical University of Munich in 1982. He held a NATO postdoctoral fellowship and subsequently became a research associate at the Department of Chemistry, Harvard University. In 1987 he was jointly appointed Asst Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University. His research has predominantly focused on structure and dynamics of biological macromolecules using computer simulation. His program X-PLOR has become one of the most widely used programs for structure determination and refinement by X-ray crystallography and solution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.