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Old notices

These pages collect together notices posted on the IUCr web site in past years. They are retained for archival interest, but there is no guarantee (or likelihood) that many of the web links found in these notices will still be active.

Congratulations to Simon Billinge, Section Editor of Acta Crystallographica Section A, for being named the 2025 Aminoff Laureate by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences!

Simon is awarded this honour “for a decisive contribution to making the pair distribution function a widely useful tool for structural and materials science.” His work has transformed how we understand the atomic structure of materials and continues to push the boundaries of crystallography and materials science. 

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