2015 Guinier Prize winner

The organizing Committee of SAS2015 is pleased to announce that the 2015 Guinier Prize winner is Professor Sow-Hsin Chen from the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. The Guinier Prize, sponsored by the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr), recognizes lifetime achievement, a major breakthrough or an outstanding contribution to the field of small-angle scattering. Over his 50-year career, Professor Sow-Hsin Chen has made numerous original and novel contributions employing small-angle scattering in fundamental studies of soft condensed matter physics. He is one of the premier scientists and experts in the international scattering community. Hallmarks of his distinguished career include the development of new methods for data analysis, together with pioneering experiments on the structure and mutual interactions of self-assembled systems such as micelles, microemulsions and protein-surfactant complexes in solution. He has trained a significant portion of the next generation of researchers in the field, including 45 PhD students. In addition, he has written a comprehensive text book on scattering methods in complex fluids. Professor Chen will receive his prize and present a plenary lecture at the SAS2015, the 16th International conference on Small-Angle Scattering in Berlin, 13-18 September, 2015 (https://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/events/sas/).