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NEW WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT
The annual workshop for 2024 will be on "Advances in Electron Spin Resonance" on September 13 through 15, 2024 at Cornell University. For more information and how to sign up for the workshop, please go to our Workshop page.
JACK FREED RECIEVES RICHARD R. ERNST PRIZE IN MAGNETIC RESONANCE
On July 10 at the EUROMAR23 Conference in Magnetic Resonance in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, ACERT director Jack Freed and Prof. Lucia Banci of Centro Risonanze Magnetiche (CERM) at the University of Florence were named joint winners of the Richard R. Ernst Prize in Magnetic Resonance.
The Richard R. Ernst Prize was founded by EUROMAR in 2017 with sponsorship by the Bruker Biospin Corp. of Billerica, MA, to recognize recent beneficial methods and applications in Magnetic Resonance research. Named after the 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awardee, Prof. Richard R. Ernst, for his seminal contributions to the development of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, the Richard R. Ernst Prize represents a significant recognition of achievements in advancing the field of magnetic resonance research and its practical applications. The Chair of the Award Committee, Professor Lucio Frydman of the Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel, said in announcing the award: "We are thrilled to recognize two winners of this year's Richard R. Ernst Prize with Professors Lucia Banci and Jack Freed. Their work with NMR and EPR spectroscopy, respectively, has paved the way for modern research in the fields of materials science and functional structural biology."
Prof. Freed was recognized for significantly contributing to the development of modern EPR by pioneering methods of pulsed-dipolar EPR, especially the application of electron-electron and double-quantum electron excitation methods, and the accurate measurement of distances and their distributions in the range of 1-10 nm. He was recognized for developing the underlying theoretical and instrumental bases of these new methods, and for their application to the study of challenging and important biological systems -including differently populated states in the photocycle of light sensitive proteins, as well as in intrinsically disordered proteins.
July 1, 2022: ACERT is funded as a Regional and National Resource.
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