2016
Announcements
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The new Executive Committee [posted 01 Sep 2017] During the Third Session of the IUCr General Assembly in Hyderabad, 26 August 2017, elections were held to appoint the Officers of the Union.
Updates to the ATSAS package [posted 04 Jul 2017]
SESAME, a visionary endeavour in science and diplomacy [posted 16 May 2017] May 16, 2017 in Allan, Jordan, the SESAME synchrotron (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) will be inaugurated by H.M. King Abdulla II of Jordan in the presence of the Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, the President of the SESAME Council, Chris Llewellyn Smith, and many other dignitaries.
Howard Flack (1943-2017) [posted 07 Feb 2017] The IUCr Editorial Office pays tribute to Howard Flack as a pioneer of electronic publishing in crystallography.
Opportunity to join the editorial team of IUCr Journals [posted 06 Feb 2017]
The IUCr has vacancies for Main Editor position(s) in the following journals: Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, Journal of Applied Crystallography,
Foundations and Advances (Acta Crystallographica Section A), Structural Biology (Acta Crystallographica Section D), Structural Biology Communications (Acta Crystallographica Section F), Crystallographic Communications (Acta Crystallographica Section E).
Acta Crystallographica Section C: Structural Chemistry appoints two new Section Editors [posted 10 Jan 2017]
Acta Crystallographica Section C: Structural Chemistry is pleased to announce the appointment of two new Section Editors, Professors Larry Falvello and Jonathan White
Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine 2017 [posted 06 Jan 2017]
The IUCr would like to congratulate the structural biologist Nenad Ban, who is to be awarded the Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine 2017 for his description of the atomic structure of cellular protein production machinery.
Douglas (Doug) Dorset (1942-2016) [posted 23 Dec 2016]
New edition of Volume A of International Tables for Crystallography [posted 12 Dec 2016] We are pleased to announce the publication in print and online of the new sixth edition of Volume A, edited by M. I. Aroyo.
1st Russian Crystallographic Congress [posted 09 Dec 2016] The First Russian Crystallographic Congress was held in Moscow in November 2016.
Its purpose was to unite Russian scientists and researchers around crystallography as a modern methodology.
Celebrating 100 years of the Debye scattering equation [posted 07 Nov 2016] One hundred and one years ago, in 1915, the Dutch-American scientist Peter J.W. Debye published a scientific paper containing the fundamental formula of X-ray diffraction by matter.
Scorpionate chemistry at the 50th anniversary [posted 04 Nov 2016] The year 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the discovery of scorpionates, a class of compound with proven versatility afforded by the ease of tuning the steric bulk and electronic properties at the metal coordination site.
2016 Nobel Prizes [posted 07 Oct 2016] The 2016 Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine, Physics and Chemistry have been announced this week.
100 years of the X-ray powder diffraction method [posted 05 Oct 2016] The 100th anniversary of powder diffraction is being celebrated in blog by André Authier.
Revised impact factor for IUCrJ [posted 28 Sep 2016]
A revised impact factor for IUCrJ (5.316) has now been released by Thomson Reuters.
Crystallography at International Data Week [posted 21 Sep 2016] Crystallography was well represented during International Data Week 2016, that took place in Denver, Colorado, in mid-September 2016.
David Hoare (1996-2016) [posted 10 Aug 2016] We are sorry to report the death of David Hoare, a key member of the IUCr staff in the Chester office.
Hugo Rietveld (1932-2016) [posted 20 Jul 2016]
New Fellow of the Royal Society [posted 03 May 2016] William David, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford in the Department of Chemistry, has achieved the distinction of being elected Fellow of the world’s most eminent and oldest scientific academy in continuous existence: the Royal Society, founded in 1660.
Theo Hahn (1928-2016) [posted 17 Feb 2016]
New Year message from IUCr President [posted 10 Feb 2016] The IUCr President emphasises the importance of the IYCr Lrgacy Fund.
Aloysio Janner (1928–2016) [posted 10 Feb 2016] Aloysio Janner passed away on 27 January 2016. He was born in 1928 in Muralto, Ticino, the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland.
Eleventh Ewald Prize - Call for Nominations [posted 02 Feb 2016] The International Union of Crystallography is pleased to invite nominations for the Ewald Prize for outstanding contributions to the science of crystallography. The eleventh Prize will be presented at the Hyderabad Congress in August 2017.
2016 Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics [posted 26 Jan 2016] Richard Henderson, member of the scientific staff in the MRC (Medical Research Council) Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, and editorial advisory board member of the open-access journal IUCrJ will receive the 2016 Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics.
CryoEM at IUCrJ: a new era [posted 14 Jan 2016] Since 2012, the advent of new electron detectors and improved computational programs together with substantial improvements in the electron microscopes themselves has produced an avalanche of new publications and coordinate depositions in the Electron Microscopy Data Bank (EMDB) and the Protein Data Bank (PDB).
Expanding beyond biological crystallography [posted 05 Jan 2016] We are witnessing a revolution in structural biology. Electron microscopy, XFELs, and hybrid structural approaches have transformed the field, creating new ways to understand biological molecules, and how they operate.
