The Guinier Prize

The International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) Commission on Small-Angle Scattering, together with the organising committee of the Triennial Conference on Small-Angle Scattering presents a prize of US$5000 in honour of the great scientist and 'father' of small-angle scattering, Professor André Guinier.

The Guinier Prize is given for lifetime achievement, a major breakthrough or an outstanding contribution to the field of small-angle scattering.

Announcement

2024 Guinier Prize Winner: Prof. Takeji Hashimoto

We are pleased to announce that the 2024 Guinier Prize is awarded to Prof. Takeji Hashimoto from Kyoto University, Japan.

7 May 2024

Prof. Takeji Hashimoto

Announcement

2022 - Jill Trewhella (School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Australia)

The 2022 Guinier Prize was awarded to Jill Trewhella at the SAS2022 meeting in Campinas, Brazil with the following citation:

6 May 2022

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Announcement

2018 - Dmitri Svergun (EMBL, c/o DESY, Germany)

At the SAS2018 meeting in Traverse City, MI, USA, the 2018 Guinier Prize was awarded to Dmitri Svergun for the following:

(i) his seminal contributions of innovative methods for the interpretation of small-angle scattering (SAS) data generally, and particularly with respect to biomolecular SAS;

6 May 2018

Dmitri Svergun receives his 2018 Guinier Prize from the IUCr SAS Commission's Jill Trewhella.

Announcement

2015 - Sow Hsin Chen (MIT, USA)

2015 - Sow Hsin Chen (MIT, USA)

6 May 2015